Google’s a monopoly, so now what?
  • Walteracc@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    2·
    23 minutes ago

    It’s not going to happen. Especially if the rumours of Harris replacing Lina Khan are true.

    Don’t get your hopes up. The US political class is far more pro business than people here would like.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    45 minutes ago

    While I do think that many of these companies need regulation, I think it would be very easy for many of them to cut off a finger or two to save the body, especially when you factor in that many departments of these companies either operate at a loss, or are in positions where they are losing market share.

    For Google, losing Chrome would do very little for them. Fill the board with several execs, and it’ll be Google-aligned for the next decade or so. They could also kill off Music, Docs, Fit, Pay, Keep, almost a dozen products that could either be killed or spun off into separate businesses. The same goes for Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, countless businesses that have a finger in a lot of pies.

    • misk@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      4·
      20 minutes ago

      There’s so much to chop off there. They’re an ad monopolist, cut that. Their YouTube business is self sufficient, cut that. Android and Play Store? Chop chop chop. Cloud Services? Chainsaw goes wrrr. Google, Chrome and assorted services could stay with Google for brand recognition. All of them would be still very big and dangerously influential.

    • thirteene@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      29 minutes ago

      At&t/pacbell basically just kept recombining after being repeatedly broken apart. The market is broken, not the company.

  • ihatetheworld@lemmy.mlEnglish
    60·
    8 hours ago

    Changes to the online advertising market would make online ads less valuable for publishers and merchants, and less useful for consumers.

    If by useful they meant anything that is heavily promoted by Google ads get added on the ‘will not touch with a 10 foot pole’ list. Sure, I guess?

    Also hinting at changing their business models, raise the cost of devices, should chrome or android be forced to break up.

    Google blog response is exactly why this breakup should happen. They are getting out of control.

    • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      39·
      8 hours ago

      Ads can not be made less useful to me in their present state, and as it is they are far overvalued as an industry.

      • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.socialEnglish
        27·
        7 hours ago

        I unironically want to go back to the days where ads told you what the product was, what it cost, why you should buy it (compared to competitors) and where to buy it. All the cutesy “we’re gonna tell a story” advertising falls flat on its face because, as much fun as the “real deal” can be, 99% of it is designed by committees to reach as big of a spread as they can. It’s soulless. I’d rather my soulless advertising be straight and to the point than some eye-rolling, meandering, soul-sucking corporate garbage that takes 90 seconds to say what it could have said in 15s.

        Hey advertisers, quit wasting my time, and your money and quit fucking doing it. The reason why the, “narrative advertising” or whatever you call it, works is because it’s made by a small company and targeted at an equally small community. Chances are, it’s enthusiasts selling to enthusiasts, and they know the people they’re targeting better than you ever could.

        You. are. not. a. small. company. You. are. not. enthusiasts. Stop it.

        • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Totally agree, nothing annoys me more than an ad that cant seem to even tell me what the product is.

          • Clasm@ttrpg.networkEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            Before YouTube’s switch to “your going to watch 6 ads before the video starts, and you are going to like it,” schtick, I always enjoyed getting to skip the ad before they managed to tell me what the product even was.

        • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          1 hour ago

          I’ll make an exception to this rule. I’ll gladly watch Thai Life Insurance ads. 3 minutes of nothing to do with insurance. And you’ll shed a tear or 2. I won’t buy the product though, I don’t live in Thailand.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        8·
        7 hours ago

        That’s for sure. I already assume ads contain malware and consider and ad blocker to be essential for security and privacy.