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Google is awful, but any other company that could afford to buy and run Chrome would be worse.
Microsoft Chrome - now with Cortana!
Heaven forbid it becomes its own company/a non profit.
Any alternative is better than letting monopolies stand.
Sounds a lot like, "Biden & Harris support genocide, so let's vote for Trump."
I think what they were saying is: two powerful, competing corpos is better than one huge and practically omnipotent corporation, which is what google currently is.
Preferring that we enforce our laws regardless of which billionaire benefits is a vote for Trump? I didn't realize that. I've seen the light now. Thank you.
There is really only three browsers webkit (safari/apple), blink (chrome/Google) , and gecko (firefox/Mozilla) . Pretty much everything is running on one of those three and if Google has to seel chrome, I'm not sure if that would help the landscape. Building/maintinaing browsers is really hard and expensive, most likely you'd just have another big tech company step in making things worse.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines
We can't continue selectively enforcing our laws against monopolies. (This is just dark humor. Citizens United is for the express purpose of ensuring that any anti-monopoly law enforcement we get is selective and political, for the rest of however long the US has left.)
That's how blow back works dear...
No thread is safe...
Eh, maybe, maybe not. I'm guessing it'll be Microsoft, and they'll just run it into the ground like they do with pretty much everything.