So stoked to see this. A bit disheartening to read this kinda shit, though=

“This victory against Google is an historic win for the American people,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland. “No company — no matter how large or influential — is above the law. The Justice Department will continue to vigorously enforce our antitrust laws.”

Only to be followed a few paragraphs down by

...a drawn-out appeals process will delay any immediate effects for both consumers and advertisers. The appeals process could take as long as five years...

Sigh.

I may be misunderstanding but why are people saying take down chromium? Please correct me if I'm wrong but chromium is open source and only invested in largely by Google. Chrome is chromium with proprietary code implemented and in no way (as far as I can tell) do they own the chromium project. I quite like chromium just the de-googled version. I think people may be mistaking Chrome and Chromium for being the same or maybe I'm wrong. Maybe someone can explain if I'm missing something

Also I'd love to see the downfall of Google but nothing will change the power they have. The names too recognizable it doesn't matter if given a choice , Grandma or Grandpa or whoever that doesn't care about this sort of thing is picking Google because out of the common options they'll probably only recognize Bing or Google maybe some Yahoo too lol

Edit: I don't understand why I'm being downvoted , I was asking a question and explaining what I understood about the project but that's the internet I suppose haha

In other news rain is wet. Damn the legal system is so inept and corrupt. This has been clear for what, like 20 years now. Should have been deemed illegal all along. For profit companies will always seek market domination to maximize profits, always have and always will. It's the legal system & authorities job to regulate so it doesn't happen and take swift action when it does.

They should also break up Google's stranglehold on the browser market but I guess that'll take another decade or two at least as well. Sadly meanwhile this ruling could lead to Mozilla losing its main funding if Google can't keep paying to be default search engine which could lead to even less choice in the browser space.