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> If a hypothetical Chrome Corp. couldn't figure out how to use the exact same data Google is harvesting with the browser to at least move in the direction of profitability, then they're hypothetically idiots.

Selling that data to the government and other corporations is user hostile though, and that is exactly what is going to happen when Google is forced to sell.

I can see why the government would love this though so it makes sense they pursue this hard now,



I'm genuinely unsure whether it's better or worse now, with Google having the exclusive rights to that data and using it for its own purposes.

(It's probably a bit better, assuming the hypothetical sale is to all comers, but still...)




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