The Department of Justice (DOJ) has a major advantage here: Google is guilty. It lost the liability phase of this trial resoundingly, with the court finding Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power.” As far as the court is concerned, Google has an illegal monopoly in search services and general search advertising. The purpose of this trial is to determine what to do about it, and the DOJ has some ideas.
This case, overseen by United States District Judge Amit Mehta, is taking place against a backdrop that is particularly unflattering for Google. It has been rocked by loss after loss in its antitrust cases, including the Epic-backed Google Play case, plus the search case that is at issue here. And just last week, a court ruled that Google abused its monopoly in advertising tech. The remedies in Google’s app store case are currently on hold pending appeal, but that problem is not going away. Meanwhile, Google is facing even more serious threats in the remedy phase of this trial.
The DOJ will come out guns blazing — it sees this as the most consequential antitrust case in the US since the Microsoft trial of the 1990s.
YouTube is the only thing worth a damn from that commie company. Lord knows their search engine is a complete dumpster fire anymore.
I started using Gmail many years ago because it was free. I’ve never been impressed with Chrome, finding it to be bloatware. While I hate Android, as an operating system, it’s somewhat better than Fire, which is used on Amazon tablets.
Agreed. I tried using Chrome about a decade ago. It became completely unusable for me after six months because of repeated updates.
I still use an old iMac because I run some legacy software on it which isn’t available for Linux. I tried Chrome and it slowed down my machine. I then installed Brave, which I later gathered was derived from Chrome, and got pretty much the same result. I checked to see which program was causing that and noticed that Brave used a large portion of the CPU’s resources.
While Firefox has its own quirks, it’s a lot faster and easier to use than Chrome.
For a different perspective, I have a notebook computer which runs an old version of Windows. I find that Chrome runs better on that than whatever browser Microsoft has concocted.
The Chrome engine is called “Blink”.
The Firefox engine is called “Gecko”.
The Safari engine is called “WebKit”.
Generally, the Blink engine is the fastest to render pages.
Using any browser out of the box is basically giving away all your browsing data, and lots of data about your pc, but Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari are the worst offenders.
Out of the box Brave (Blink engine), and Mullvad browser (Gecko engine) are the best, but one should really harden them with settings in the about:config parts of Gecko, and add privacy extensions.
uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, WebRTC network limiter, Canvass Blocker and Font Fingerprint Defender seem to work pretty well according to the tests at Coveryourtracks and BrowserLeaks.
Amazon Fire is rebranded Android.
Youtube has been getting worse and worse.
Remember when it showed people jumping rivers on motorbikes and stuff like that?
Google’s strategizes SEO (Search Engine Optimization) prioritizing search results based on the idiom “He who pays the piper calls the tune”. Best alternative I’ve found is Privacia.org
Was it really that long ago when Google’s mantra was “Do no evil?”
–the REAL fc.
Well, it changed to “Do
noevil”, fc.I still have a gmail account I set up in 2009 as a spam catcher. It’s been great for that. I check it 2 or 3 times a year whether I need to or not.
They meant you should leave it to them.
pfffft. ‘a cost of doing bizznizz’.
same as billy boy hiring very expensive lawyers to steal the name explorer or whatever it was they wanted.
same a zuckershyt ‘admitting’ to congressional hearing the sloppy security LONG after the billions piled up.
’twas ever thus. google (pun intended) teddy roosevelt copper trusts.
email?
2 1/2 years ago l was in a very sensitive point in a reverse mortgage.
outlook deleted my email for ‘lack of use’ despite using regularly for some 7 years.
yep. right in the middle of things. l didnt panic but instead found out a procedure to revive it and reinstate it. how the FFFFCCCCCUK can something like that ever happen?
Related:
Dead Internet Theory Confirmed: 51% of Traffic Now Non-Human, even worse: 37% of all Internet traffic is from “malicious bots” according to the 2025 “Bad Bot Report”.
https://rumble.com/v6sfpbf-dead-internet-theory-confirmed-51-of-traffic-now-non-human.html
a reminder, a ‘patch’ that gives a far better search result with the infamous google:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGlNb2ZPZdc (none of the AI nonsense)
Or, after you hit search, just click on the “web” option along the top. Does exactly the same thing.
Better yet, you could use a search engine that doesn’t log, store and sell your data.
Now do Amazon Kindle………
TOS snip.
1. Kindle Content License
Use of Kindle Content. Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider.
*snip*
below, a non-exclusive right to view, use, and display such Kindle Content (for Subscription Content, only as long as you remain an active member of the underlying membership or subscription program), solely through Kindle Software or as otherwise permitted as part of the Service, solely on the number of Supported Devices specified in the Kindle Store, and solely for your personal, non-commercial use.