I don't think it's socialism. More like fascist graft.

Check the fine print because I'm sure the official owner of the 10% will also be listed as "President Donal J. Trump" rather than "US Government".

Yes, yes , the critics will wank on about it being Google, or imperfect somewhere, or just like Windows. But are you really going to claim it's worse than the current solution of "nothing at all" in the IoT space?

Not sure how selling Chrome will weaken Google's dominance of web search. All the "dominance" in Google's position is held in the back-end servers, algorithms, massive data sets, etc.

It might impact Googles dominance in web advertising though, since they can probably squeeze more revenue out of people using Chrome than another browser.

With Trump weaponizing the Federal government, effectively holding citizens and companies hostage to his whims until they handover the requisite "loyalty payment", I would have thought the US was making great progress in the development of "ransomware".

At this point I'm waiting for Trump to recreate the Blackmail Show from Monty Python but in real life. I mean he does kinda do it now with his tariff policy.

Your claim that Canada might piss off Americans has weight only if we assume America matters. It doesn't; not any more.

Trump says America doesn't need Canada, but it's the other way around. It's the rest of the world that doesn't need America. The faster the global village can kick the US to the curb the better off it'll be.

I understand the value proposition you are making, but just how exactly are the great unwashed masses supposed to:

You offering to pay the hefty licensing fee for everyone?

Careful George. If you're going to validate history going back that far, you are bound to run afoul of the very woke activists you inspired when you handed Lucas Arts over to Kathleen Kennedy.

Let us not forget that these are the same people who are also responsible for choosing the leader of the free world every 4 years. Despite there being multiple agreements where the US committed (and re-committed) itself to be the western world's leader in exchange for all the economic goodies and benefits, I'm surprised it lasted this long.

I just hope the rest of the free world will finally appreciate the size and scope of the knife Trump just stabbed in their backs and finally kick the US to the curb.

It's also abundantly clear that Americans keep voting in Trump. Get back to me after the next presidential election cycle and maybe we can talk. In the mean time, you'll pardon me if I take your statement for what it's genuinely worth; absolutely nothing.

Noble and all that, but sometimes violence is necessary for change to something better. I suppose during WWII the Allies could have stood on the beaches and just yelled at the Axis powers that they should stop acting so badly, but I doubt that would have changed things much.

Yes, thank you we already knew this. It also implies that there are at least as few, very likely fewer, actual people perpetrating all of the toxicity and divisiveness.

Now, dealing with the problem brings to mind a quote from the TV series Person of Interest:

Captain Kirk was really good at that too. He could smoke a computer with the best of them.

I thought it was called 3I/ATLAS or C/2025 N1.

Yes, too bad Firefox can't be the best browser on par with Chrome. Too bad it can't be 100% free of personal data exploitation. Too bad it can't be perfect.

I guess it must be because of bad management, not, say, because it takes a shit load of money to develop and maintain a modern browser and Mozilla was probably concerned with where the fuck they were supposed to get the money to fund this thing that everyone in the world was supposed to depend on for years and years.

Oh well, I'm sure there are many others ways you can display your tone deaf understanding of the world Mr. Vaughan-Nichols you fucking twat.

Unlike a bacteria, that have multiple purposes, like also when to pick the kids up from school.

This is an idiotic basis for the distinction between bacteria and viruses. The comments here will be full of more valid distinctions.