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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Google Search? Courts Must Enable Competition While Protecting Privacy. (www.eff.org)

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Can we get from a world where Google is synonymous with search to a world where other search engines have a real chance to compete? The U.S. and state governments’ bipartisan antitrust suit, challenging the many ways that Google has maintained its search monopoly, offers an opportunity.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most interesting would be a forced sell of Android. Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution? Would we see more official distributions of Android without any Google software?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution?

No. Or, almost certainly no. If they were forced to sell Android, my guess would be that another tech giant, that makes most of their money from data harvesting, would be most likely to buy it. Meaning any spyware would remain, and just be pointed to different servers.