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   @IamBananas007

   November 25, 2024 at 6:25 pm

   Good, its about time. Googles strangle on the web is limiting freedom of development and pluggins (eg:uBlock, web standards). Long live Firefox

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     @boonkiathan

     November 26, 2024 at 3:45 am

     build around standards yes, but not at expense of Chrome, Google has been a strong proponent for the web architecture amidst their advantages

     this only opens the door for OpenAI to further their motives to control the Web

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   @Jim_Snowman

   November 26, 2024 at 9:41 am

   This roughly the same anti-trust, monopoly garbage rhetoric by the DOJ happened against Microsoft in the early 1990s with its now-dead Internet Explorer browser. Funny no one is bringing up that story.

   With Microsoft, however, they were not allowing competing browsers to be installed on Windows computers; so in that sense it really was a kind of monopoly. The simple fix was to allow other browsers to be installed on Windows computers, which BY THE WAY included the Google browser.

   But before Google came along, the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser was the go-to browser for most Internet users, the same way the Google Chrome browser is now. There was no better browser that Internet Explorer at the time. So it didn’t matter that various competing browsers were being installed on new Windows computers, because nobody used them anyway. Mostly everyone used the Internet Explorer browser, including me.

   Then Google comes along. Everyone thinks it looks stupid and is a stupid name. But very quickly the Google browser outperforms Internet Explorer and then everyone had a new favorite browser. Internet Explorer took a back seat to Google and it has been in the back seat ever since.

   That isn’t Google’s fault. Google Chrome is just the better browser. And so of course most consumers will pick the better choice of something to use no matter what it is.

   Microsoft officially dumped the Internet Explorer browser only in 2022. I think they waited way too long to do that personally. And now they have rebranded it to the “EDGE” browser. But it doesn’t matter. EDGE is still not the better browser compared to Google Chrome.

   So I get it: Bill Gates is whimpering and whining and feeling sorry for himself and wants to punish Google, when in reality Bill Gates is the guy who purposely tried to rig his own monopoly in the 1990s. Bill Gates is the criminal if anyone is a criminal.

   I personally just won’t use the Chrome browser anymore if Google is forced to sell it. It might carry the name “Chrome” but it WILL NOT be the same browser. That would not even be possible.

   I also won’t use the EDGE browser. But I used to use the Mozilla Firefox browser and always liked it. So I would just go back to Firefox.

   Otherwise, I think if I was Google, I would refuse to sell and instead I would just DISCONTINUE use of the Chrome browser. Tell the DOJ to screw itself and just toss the Chrome browser in the garbage rather than kissing dirty butt and selling it off.

   Then watch as the entire stock market dumps by 60% or more. That would be funny to see…????

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