• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Cut Google Fiber off and it can be a separate ISP.

      Cut the Chromebook and Pixel phone divisions off. thay can support itself with device sales.

      go ahead and kill the projects they’re gonna abandon in the next few years anyway, don’t let them replace them.

    • threeganzi@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Then the search company buy the ad service from the ad company, as all other search engines can then do as well. Isn’t that the point of breaking up a big company?

      I’m a layman, but how is that harming the market?

    • mrinfinity@lemmy.world
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      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.