Google may be forced to sell Chrome Options

[pandy]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/doj-ask-...rts-2024-11-18/

[Darin McGrew]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/doj-ask-...rts-2024-11-18/

Interesting. I'm currently considering switching from Chrome back to Opera (I haven't used Opera since they switched from their own rendering engine to the same one Chrome uses). The driver is a browser plugin that I use to filter Facebook, to get rid of most of the noise on Facebook to keep it bearable.

[pandy]

I've been trying Brave - a little. Also chromium based. Supposed to have the best privacy protection. It seem to filter ads by default, something I don't necessarily want. But I haven't looked into the settings yet. There was a time when I thought it was fun to customize software and dig into the settings. Not so much anymore. Especially not open source software that often changes drastically with each release.

[Christian J]

What would the practical consequences be if Chrome was a separate company? I suspect that Firefox has been supported by Google as an alibi, to prevent Google from being labelled a browser monopoly. But if Chrome would become another "independent" browser company - just like Mozilla - maybe there would no longer be any need for Google to keep Mozilla/Firefox as an alibi, and it would disappear. Or would Firefox' unique browser engine be enough to keep it alive?

The driver is a browser plugin that I use to filter Facebook, to get rid of most of the noise on Facebook to keep it bearable.

Is that a Manifest v2 extension (that Chrome will stop supporting)? Haven't found any information yet on how the various Chromium-based browsers will handle that.