minus-squarenooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyztoTechnology@lemmy.world•DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopolylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·1 day agoHow does chrome make money? It uses ads from Google, chrome on it’s own is not a business. Say you buy chrome, you have to options Ads built into chrome itself (when you’re in the settings menu, homepage, reading a PDF, playing the dino game) Force your own default search engine, or get a company like Google or Bing to pay you for the privilege of being a default search engine. Neither of these options are better than the status quo linkfedilink
minus-squarenooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Missing Artwork Piratelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·15 days agoBetter off posting this on the dbzero instance linkfedilink
How does chrome make money? It uses ads from Google, chrome on it’s own is not a business.
Say you buy chrome, you have to options
Ads built into chrome itself (when you’re in the settings menu, homepage, reading a PDF, playing the dino game)
Force your own default search engine, or get a company like Google or Bing to pay you for the privilege of being a default search engine.
Neither of these options are better than the status quo