The U.S. Department of Justice will ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.'s Google to sell off its Chrome browser, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

Note: Original report by Bloomberg, article by Reuters proxied by Neuters to bypass paywall.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 month ago

    That’s exactly what I was thinking. It also makes Chrome essentially worthless to anyone except Google.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 month ago

      Maybe as a whole package, but node.js servers are ubiquitous and have a ton of stakeholders that have nothing to do with web browsers.

      • @btaf45English
        1•1 month ago

        What does Chrome have to do with a node.js server?

            • @[email protected]English
              2•1 month ago

              The JavaScript (code) engine that powers Chrome is the same JavaScript (code) engine that powers Node servers. Node is used to power a large portion of web applications and internal corporate tools. The Chromium/Node project is under the tight control of Google engineers.

          • @btaf45English
            1•29 days ago

            Are you saying Google funds node.js development?