The US v. Google antitrust case may be frustratingly shrouded in secrecy, but occasionally we get some fun nuggets. The quote above comes from an internal email sent by Google’s Jim Kolotouros, VP of Android Platform Partnerships. “Chrome exists to serve Google search,” he writes. “If it cannot do that because it is regulated to be set by the user, the value of users using Chrome goes to almost zero (for me).”
  • jecht360@lemmy.worldEnglish
    904·
    1 year ago

    Move to Firefox (or any non-Chromium browser really) and use a different search engine that’s not run by a giant corporation. I use DuckDuckGo.

    • kelvie@lemmy.caEnglish
      93·
      1 year ago

      Or just pay Kagi. If you’re not paying they’re gonna have to get their money somewhere, and search is expensive.

    • vermyndax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I started getting targeted ads on DDG this morning. They were targeting my search terms, and Microsoft had bought the targets. Getting Edge ads in DDG is a hard stop for me.

    • soulfirethewolf@lemdro.idEnglish
      219·
      1 year ago

      Perhaps I’ll switch to Firefox when they actually start getting things together and start implementing the things people ask for instead of actively removing functionality deemed “too complicated”