Alright, hear me out: we split up Alphabet. Ads and search can be one company, since those two are always going to be related, while Chrome, Android, and the hardware division become the other company. This should help reduce Google’s current incentive for privacy invasion.
No. You have got to split search and ads. Otherwise the web search is going to disappear completely and replaced by social media and ai. It’s for Google s own good.
If it happened, but with only two companies it’s so easy for shenanigans to happen. Companies partner up to screw consumers all the time. Harder to pull it off efficiently with more companies.
Alright, hear me out: we split up Alphabet. Ads and search can be one company, since those two are always going to be related, while Chrome, Android, and the hardware division become the other company. This should help reduce Google’s current incentive for privacy invasion.
No. You have got to split search and ads. Otherwise the web search is going to disappear completely and replaced by social media and ai. It’s for Google s own good.
Unless is a five way split, it won’t really change much.
What? Having Chrome become Chromium and Android being degooglified would be pretty huge?
If it happened, but with only two companies it’s so easy for shenanigans to happen. Companies partner up to screw consumers all the time. Harder to pull it off efficiently with more companies.
Same result, different road.
I would honestly want the hardware division split as well. There’s still an impetus to turn Android into a walled garden there, too.
you shouldn’t allow a web browser and an operating system be in one company
Browsers should be open standards, like TCP/IP.
browsers are not protocols but applications. how do you make an open standard for an application? was that done before?