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Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web


You’ve got a monopoly on lemonade because you pay all the grocery stores to be the default lemonade. So we’re going to force you sell your car. What’s with the weird redirect? If …

Because many users simply stick to searching with the default, Google receives billions of queries every day through those access points. If I go to a website on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, some Linux distro, my Samsung phone, or whatever device I have that has a web browser on it, it really is the same set of files that deliver that experience. Being forced to make proprietary apps to reach people is an expensive prospect for the rest of us companies of the world, it will probably be done poorly, and we’ll all suffer for it.

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