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Eh, I would think that if they're under fire for being a monopoly any non monopolistic actions like funding their rivals will be pretty well received.
They're paying Firefox to make google search default. That is a monopolistic practice.
How is that monopolistic if we are able to change our default search engine?
This isn't the first time that something being the default was considered part of a monopoly case. Most notably internet explorer in the Microsoft monopoly case.
The big thing is that even if there are other options... A lot of people won't ever bother to change it.