Google’s a monopoly, so now what?
  • miskOPEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    There’s so much to chop off there. They’re an ad monopolist, cut that. Their YouTube business is self sufficient, cut that. Android and Play Store? Chop chop chop. Cloud Services? Chainsaw goes wrrr. Google, Chrome and assorted services could stay with Google for brand recognition. All of them would be still very big and dangerously influential.

    • SaltySalamander@fedia.io
      2·
      2 months ago

      Unless you spin off Youtube along with the ad business into their own company, YouTube dies. It is in no way self-sufficient without the ad network that literally supports it.

      • miskOPEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I’m happy enough with the discourse being „how would we chop Google into pieces”, I know my dream is probably just a dream haha.

        YouTube is probably the biggest streaming service out there. They’d have no issues negotiating a sweet deal with some ad company, former Google or other. As of now most YouTube users are products sold to advertisers so we’d benefit from adjusting this a bit too.

    • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      2 months ago

      No shit, good fucking luck getting a business to purposely neuter itself.

      Any reduction in operations or separating into new businesses would almost certainly be an effort to trim expenses/fat, and not a realistic effort into creating multiple viable businesses.

      With that said, I’d definitely cut Cloud. They’re a distant and expensive third to AWS and Azure, and it probably doesn’t make the kind of money that other arms will make.