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A Google breakup is on the table, say DOJ lawyers (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (12 children)

But how do you break up Google? Their ad business is the lynchpin to their monopolies and breaking off chunks without being able to self fund is just asking for harm to the market.

Breaking off Chrome while banning paid default search status puts the browser company with the same problem as Firefox.

No one can run a search company without ads.

Cutting along business lines is just going to create smaller monopolies or dead product lines.

[โ€“] sysop 6 points 2 months ago

Not our problem. Adtech is cyber warfare. They can find new business models not designed to exploit nor control us.

We need to stop depending on Big Tech giants like AWS, Google, Microsoft. I personally hope it breeds new innovation.

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