US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google - eviltoast
A bid to break up Alphabet Inc.’s Google is one of the options being considered by the Justice Department after a landmark court ruling found that the company monopolized the online search market, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.
  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    3 months ago

    I’ll believe it when I see it but it was nice to have a court case actually convicting them.

    Edit:

    the most likely units for divestment are the Android operating system and Google’s web browser Chrome, said the people. Officials are also looking at trying to force a possible sale of AdWords, the platform the company uses to sell text advertising, one of the people said.

    That would be so nice, there was already a huge thread about how much Google screws over Android too.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
      111·
      3 months ago

      Battery life would suddenly be through the moon if all their tracking and metrics gathering in Android was removed. Wonder what the carbon footprint of all that is at scale.