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A few months ago, Google was forced to register on the Monopoly offenders list
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and go door-to-door in Mountain View to tell all the neighbors.
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After a judge ruled they violated the U.S.
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Sherman Act of 1890, Google was cutting unfair deals for its search engine to crush competition across the entire technology spectrum.
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They were paying 36% of ad revenue or $20 billion per year to dominate Apple devices, Mozilla Firefox was raking in cash to make Google the default,
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and a bunch of other companies' financial statements were being nourished by the teats of this illegal cash cow.
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Being added to the Monopoly wall of shame was a huge embarrassment for a company that once said, don't be evil, but like Microsoft, Walter White, Macbeth, and Gollum,
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their greed for power eventually backfired.
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But it appears, unlike Microsoft, that Google won't just get a slap on the wrist and possibly lose their most important piece of software, the Chrome web browser.
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It is November 20th, 2024, and you're watching the Code Report.
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It's a bit ironic that the Chrome web browser currently controls 66.6% of the browser market share, And Google Search even dominates on browsers that aren't Chrome,
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like Safari and Firefox, thanks to those illegal deals I mentioned earlier.
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But to Google's credit, they've invested millions upon millions of dollars into making web browsers awesome for end users.
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Their open source Chromium project is used by Microsoft's Edge browser, as well as alternative hipster browsers like Brave and Arc.
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And all this browser technology is offered for free out of the goodness of Google's heart.
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Well, as the old saying goes, when software is free, it means that you are the product.
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Chrome tracks your search queries, your browsing history, and online behavior, and all this data feeds back into its advertising business,
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where it can figure out exactly what type of consumer garbage to sell you and when.
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Not only does Google's ad revenue dwarf the competition, but Alphabet operates at a gross profit margin north of 50%, and they make an absolute killing selling their ads to the highest bidder.
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But the Chrome browser is critical to its success because it's the front door to everything Google offers,
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but apparently, Department of Justice lawyers are pushing to have Chrome split off or sold to a different company, with an estimated price tag of at least $20 billion.
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The only potential buyers would be companies like Meta, Apple, and Amazon, all of which are accused of running their own monopolies.
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If browsers start presenting new search engines as alternatives, like OpenAI's new search engine or DuckDuckGo,
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Google's 90% dominance of the search engine market will very likely start to deteriorate, but they're not going down without a fight.
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And their regulatory affairs VP said, the DOJ continues to push a radical agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues of the case.
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Things already look bad, but to make matters even worse, the leadership at the DOJ is about to change, and whoever takes over there is likely not going to be a big fan of Google.
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Now, Microsoft also became a certified monopoly 25 years ago
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when they bundled Internet Explorer with Microsoft Windows and suppressed other browsers like Netscape.
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Instead of breaking up the company, though, they just had to open up their APIs to third-party developers
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and stop entering exclusivity deals that were unfair to other browsers.
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They didn't even face a direct financial penalty.
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Microsoft is doing just fine today as a $3 trillion company, but if Google loses Chrome, I'm not so sure they have a moat to handle a hit like that.
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The good news is that it looks like they'll let Google keep Android, and we still don't know how their AI tech is going to play out long term.
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Their Gemini AI has become quite impressive, and has become so confident that it's now telling humans to die.
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But like I said, Chrome is also the front door to get people using Gemini.
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And when you close that front door, it could also hurt consumers, because Google will no longer have the motivation to invest in browser technology.
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Like just imagine the horrors if Chrome was handed off to a non-profit like Apache or the Linux Foundation.
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It might evolve into a diverse ecosystem of hyper-specialized browser distros.
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And who knows, they might even kill off Manifest version 3, which would allow ad blockers to keep working.
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And that means I couldn't use this opportunity right now to promote my new Linux and Dino courses on Fireship.io,
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which you can get access to as a pro member using this Black Friday discount for 40% off.
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Personally though, I think Google will fight this to the death, and I highly doubt Google will ever be forced to sell Chrome.
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The betting odds are currently at 13% because there's no way that Google gives up its precious.
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One browser to rule them all, one browser to find them, one browser to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
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This has been The Code Report, thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.

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Für wen ist dieses Video geeignet?

Dieses Video eignet sich perfekt für fortgeschrittene Englischlerner, die an realen, spannenden Themen üben wollen – ideal für diejenigen, die ihre Englische Aussprache verbessern und gleichzeitig über aktuelle Tech-Entwicklungen informiert werden. Es eignet sich besonders für Lerner, die mit dem Shadowing-Verfahren arbeiten, da der Sprecher eine klare, gut verständliche Stimme hat, die sich gut für shadow speech eignet. Ob du an deiner Flüssigkeit oder an spezifischen Redewendungen übst – hier findest du viel Stoff zum Üben.

Wörter und Redewendungen, die sich lohnen zu lernen

  • Monopoly offenders list: Liste der Monopolverstöße – eine metaphorische Liste für Unternehmen, die wettbewerbswidrige Praktiken anwenden.
  • slap on the wrist: leichte Bestrafung – wie eine Ohrfeige, aber für Unternehmen.
  • cash cow: Geldkuh – ein Unternehmen oder Produkt, das stetig Einnahmen generiert.
  • moat: (hier) Wettbewerbsvorteil – wie ein Graben um eine Burg, der Schutz bietet.

Diese Redewendungen machen den Text lebendig und zeigen, wie Englisch in der Unterhaltung oder in Diskussionen über Wirtschaft und Technik verwendet wird. Perfekt fürs Shadowing, um sie in der richtigen Intonation zu üben!

Wie man die Aussprache richtig beherrscht

Der Sprecher verwendet eine klare, amerikanische Aussprache mit natürlicher Rhythmus. Achte besonders auf Wörter wie deteriorate (de-ti-ri-o-rate) oder regulatory (re-gu-la-to-ry), bei denen lange Silben korrekt betont werden müssen. Für shadow speak eignet sich dieser Text hervorragend, weil er eine Mischung aus schnellen Sätzen und ausführlichen Erklärungen enthält – übe, wie der Sprecher zwischen informativ und ironisch wechselt (z. B. bei der Bemerkung zu Gemini AI). Nutze eine shadowing site, um die Pausen und die Betonung genau zu kopieren – so verbessern sich nicht nur deine Aussprache, sondern auch dein Flüssigkeitsgefühl.

Denke daran: Das Ziel ist, die natürliche Flüssigkeit des Sprechers nachzuahmen, nicht nur die Wörter. Probier es mit kurzen Abschnitten zuerst – und du wirst merken, wie schnell du Fortschritte machst!

Grammatik in diesem Video

Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:

StrukturIm Video
Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tutwas forced · being nourished · Being added
Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig istthey've invested · has become · has been

Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?

Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.

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