DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next

Article note: They're gonna spin a collusion engine as a quasi-independent entity. Basically the members of that Linux Foundation "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" initiative will form an LLC or something to hold the trademarks, which will be de-facto controlled by Google and Microsoft as the largest employer of active developers and cashflow. They'll let Opera and Brave and such act like they have seats at the table to provide plausible deniability, while being such a center of gravity in the ecosystem the largest incumbents can be even bigger bullies except where the infighting gets in the way of collusion. Browsers themselves don't make any income, there is only secondary money in providing other parties access to user data/behavioral influence, so actually independent entities holding up the ridiculous complexity we've stuffed into borrowers is not really a serious proposition (as we've been seeing with Mozilla recently).