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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Very bad ideas: Government wants Google to sell
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Mon Nov 18 19:58:46 2024
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:48:43 -0800
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Very bad ideas: Government wants Google to sell off Chrome, etc.
While this may not end up mattering in its current form given the
results of the election, word is that the (current) federal government
wants Google to sell off the Chrome browser, decouple Android,
license search results and other data, and a number of other mostly
terrible ideas with deep and dangerous security and negative user
experience implications. While the logic of these kinds of "remedies"
may seem to make sense from a competitive landscape viewpoint, their
potential for causing users enormous security problems and confusion
is nearly boundless, and suggests that these aspects have not figured
prominently (or at all?) in the decision-making processes involved.
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