• Doug Holland
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      910 days ago

      Sounds a lot like, “Biden & Harris support genocide, so let’s vote for Trump.”

      • fxomtM
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        810 days ago

        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.

        • @NightOwl@lemmy.one
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          1010 days ago

          Under normal circumstances, but i just have this suspicion that Musk will buy it using Russian and Saudi funding like was rumored for where he got the funding for Twitter.

          So whether that would be a better situation I guess is up to interpretation.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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        69 days ago

        The spoiler effect doesn’t apply in this scenario. We aren’t stuck with 2 choices, either Chrome under Google or Chrome under another shitty corporate.

        If Chrome enshittifies, we have Firefox, Librewolf, Brave, Ironfox, Waterfox, Ungoogle Chromium, etc…

        • @jacksilver@lemmy.world
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          69 days ago

          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

      • @MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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        610 days ago

        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.

      • @MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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        410 days ago

        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.)