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Summary

  • A US judge has ruled that Google doesn't need to sell off its Android operating system or its Chrome browser in a monopoly case

  • However, the tech giant has been ordered to share data with competitors to help open up competition in online search

  • The judgment follows a finding that Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search

  • Google was sued by the US Department of Justice in 2020 over its control of about 90% of the online search market

  • Prosecutors accused Google of spending billions of dollars annually to Apple, Samsung, Mozilla and others to be pre-installed as the default search engine

  • The US said Google typically pays more than $10bn (Β£7.8bn) a year for that privilege

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[–] artifex@piefed.social 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Boy, that’ll really teach them.

[–] art@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

A lesson has definitely been taught.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

Yes it will.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

fuck google and fuck the us "justice" system. it just exists to protect the rich.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days ago

It's the "just us!" system, where "us" doesn't include you and me.

[–] Wolfram@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Fuck Google and fuck the bureaucracy of the U.S. Of course they'd rule to not split Google in the face of them killing sideloading.

[–] Loid@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

As usual, nothing ever happens

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 16 points 1 week ago

This will not fix the monopoly problem.

[–] scottrepreneur@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Actually insane

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

This is how this fucking system works.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago

Very trusting untitrust.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

Really should have forced them to sell of AdSense.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Get ready for Google to push overtly far-right christian views on every of its platforms! The favor needs to be paid back to the Trump admin.

EDIT: I realized that they were already doing it...

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Only option is moving away from American products/services whenever possible.

Many places are corrupt, it would be wrong to judge the citizens of such countries (things can change), but with the US it's pretty obvious that there minimal interest in anti-crime reform, judicial reform and real anti corruption programs.

[–] biscuit 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Respectfully, what are you going on about?

The EU and UK antitrusts also came to the same conclusion as the US.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The EU and UK antitrusts also came to the same conclusion as the US.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/europe-slaps-google-with-2-95b-euro-fine-over-advertising-monopoly/

Ignoring Trump threats, Europe hits Google with 2.95B euro fine for adtech monopoly - The EU could seek to break up Google's ad division.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

He's talking about the facade of freedom, justice, and choice falling off the cliff when they're losing influence on the global scale. Breaking off a surveillance monopoly reduces their reach or makes it more complicated, so they decided not to. antitrust or whatever.

EU and UK are part of the same surveillance pact, if you didn't know, so its on point why they would reach the same conclusion.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Life is a bit more complicated than that, although I would be curious to learn about the alleged similarity in responses from different competition agencies.

Considering the current the state of American society any independent anti trust actions is likely to followed by disproportional threats.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago