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Comment by OptionOfT

I think Google, what we initially knew as the search engine company, should spin off the advertisement and the browser division. Not making any statements of the rest of Google, it's just that I'm most familiar with the impact of those 3 together.

Google Chrome in the past greatly pushed the quality of web browsers, but now their roadmap isn't for the best of the web, it's for the best of Google.

Their browser is going to kill a system (Extensions v2) that will dramatically reduce the quality of adblocking, which will benefit their Advertisement group.

The same browser tried to get rid of a system (3rd party cookies) that reduced the useability of tracking for other companies, while they have much more data to link to you (DNS, Search, Mail, etc).

parent OptionOfT 2 years ago

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