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Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report (nypost.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't have to be free. People used to pay for licensed software with money instead of their private data. We can do that again, or there's still open source options like Firefox and it's derivatives.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It does have to be free. It's open source software. If they tried to charge money for Chrome, people would just use Chromium or one of the other browsers based on it.

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Chromium is open source. Chrome is not. Open source also doesn't mean that you can't charge for the compiled binaries. But that isn't my point. My point is that the reason it's free is that you're actually paying for it through the value of Google tracking and storing everything you do, but as a society have don't have to structure services this way.