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European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices

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398 points ChrisArchitect | 7 comments | 05 Sep 25 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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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. bgarbiak ◴[05 Sep 25 18:40 UTC] No.45142076[source]▶
In that case people (some of them at least) would switch to a different browser. Reducing Chrome market share would be healthy for the web too.
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2. mupuff1234 ◴[05 Sep 25 20:47 UTC] No.45143410[source]▶
Or we'll just get a duopoly where Microsoft and Apple control the web, both of which don't really have business incentives to improve it.
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3. fsflover ◴[05 Sep 25 20:50 UTC] No.45143434[source]▶
You mean, like it is now?
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4. mupuff1234 ◴[05 Sep 25 21:04 UTC] No.45143598{3}[source]▶
Yes, but with companies that have even less incentive to actually make the web decent.
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5. ApolloFortyNine ◴[06 Sep 25 01:18 UTC] No.45145669{3}[source]▶
Google has done a ton for PWAs. If apple didn't have the monopoly they have on the ios ecosystem and actually granted PWAs the same accesses they get on android, you'd likely see them taking off.

They're essentially apps that don't have to go through the app store.

6. fsflover ◴[08 Sep 25 22:35 UTC] No.45174982{4}[source]▶
I don't see how it can be worse than now.
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