How can chrome be broken off from the rest of google? It's not a standalone product that has its own revenue sources.
The question reveals the problem.
Chrome won the browser wars a decade ago, it hasn't done anything since except try to track and monetize that audience.
As in, Chrome decoupled from Google should have 90% of revenue coming from Google/Alphabet, as Mozilla does?
After the WEI incident chrome is pretty dang tainted to me.
I'm mostly salty that chromium made Opera go from the wonderful Presto engine to being yet another chromium clone...
I do not know this story. How did the Chromium team force Opera to change rendering engines?
Maybe Chromium development could be broken off into a non-profit, but Chrome is just some Google branding on top of the open source Chromium.
I dont think this is a form of monopoly, if the only thing the dominant position gives you is money to burn.
however, if google refused to advertise another browser in their search, and instead show chrome's ads in place of say, a firefox ad, then there's huge grounds for monopoly abuse.
Chrome makes a ton of money.
Google pays Apple and others billions of dollars to be the default search engine in their browser. Google gets that free now from Chrome but they get the revenue from all of those searches. Google would need to pay Chrome for that. Or I'm sure Microsoft would be willing to pay a lot if Google is not.