[AJ007]

Between the convoluted EU rules and whatever the multiple US antitrust cases outcomes are, it could be a lot simpler: Chrome, Android, Youtube, and Gmail all must be divested. The ad & search business don't really appear separable, but everything else certainly is.

[imglorp]

How? Projects like Chrome are adj delivery and surveillance platforms wholly funded by the ad business for the benefit of the ad busines. What would a spinoff look like?

[readams]

Chrome exists to counter the previous platform browser monopoly from Microsoft, which was holding back the web from being a viable application platform. It was never been about surveillance and doesn't do a very good job of surveillance if that were the goal.

[NoGravitas]

Chrome was created to counter the previous platform browser monopoly from Microsoft. Once that was achieved, it pivoted. First to making sure Google has a controlling stake in setting web standards, and then to surveillance. Surveillance features: FLoC, Manifest v3, Web Attestation. The surveillance features have often flopped or been beaten back, but they keep being introduced.

[Ekaros]

Search and ad is one to be split too. I see no reason why search cannot operate just like every other website. Just add billion tracking cookies and do the usual.