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398 points ChrisArchitect | 4 comments | 05 Sep 25 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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isodev ◴[05 Sep 25 17:50 UTC] No.45141438[source]▶
Oh nice. I hope other countries follow suit. It’s quite a shame Google didn’t get Chrome divested from them in the US, would’ve been a “nature is healing” moment for the web.
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richwater ◴[05 Sep 25 17:53 UTC] No.45141476[source]▶
Running a browser without an ecosystem behind it is a money pit and would be worth almost 0.
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isodev ◴[05 Sep 25 17:54 UTC] No.45141494[source]▶
Doesn’t matter, as consumers, we’re absolutely ducked from all sides as long as our “window into the web” is fully controlled by a single corp.
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mupuff1234 ◴[05 Sep 25 17:58 UTC] No.45141528[source]▶
And if Chrome were to be divested it would have just gotten swallowed up by a different corp, most likely to end up in worse hands imo.

Can you name any other company that if they owned Chrome it would've been better for the users and the web?

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1. lawlessone ◴[05 Sep 25 18:09 UTC] No.45141685[source]▶
>Can you name any other company that if they owned Chrome it would've been better for the users and the web?

Mozilla? Red Hat? Valve?

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2. bitpush ◴[05 Sep 25 18:22 UTC] No.45141844[source]▶
Mozilla already owns a browser, and gets free money from Google to do that. Yet, they have been mismanaging the whole time.

What makes you think they'll suddenly do a good job when the funding goes away, and they have to now support a large userbase which pays $0 to use the product.

3. NekkoDroid ◴[05 Sep 25 18:25 UTC] No.45141884[source]▶
> Mozilla?

Already has a browser. With debatable success.

> Red Hat?

Would probably rather end up under the Linux Foundation and not RH. How development would then continue is up for debate.

> Valve?

They already use CEF for their Steam client IIRC, but I don't think they are too much interested in owning an entire browser. Especially considering Valve itself is a relatively small company emplyee wise.

4. LunaSea ◴[05 Sep 25 18:26 UTC] No.45141896[source]▶
Mozilla would immediately go bankrupt because Google wouldn't have to sponsor them anymore.

Red Hat has been acquired and is already well underway on the enshitification road.

Browsers are way too far from Valve's core business.