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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) plans to ask a judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser, aiming to break up its dominance in the search market and address antitrust violations.

The DoJ also seeks structural remedies for Google’s role in artificial intelligence and the Android ecosystem, along with data licensing requirements.

Google, controlling 90% of the global search market, has called the actions an overreach that would harm consumers.

This follows an earlier court ruling finding Google guilty of maintaining an illegal monopoly. Proposed remedies are due by December 20.

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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So I don't get how this addresses the anti trust issues... So Google doesn't own the browser, won't they still make deals to be the default search engine across all devices? Don't they still manipulate search results to benefit themselves and their ad revenue above the quality of their search results?

[–] l_b_i@pawb.social 11 points 4 days ago

I don't know if this is part of the case, but browsers basically control standards, and with the size of chrome, that means google controls the standards. The browser is a big aspect of the ad pipeline. Because they have the browser they could direct page views to themselves more than they do by using amp links. Even with blocking cookies and such, chrome still sends data back to google. There was the whole logon scheme they were pushing (I don't remember the name) that only chrome would be able to do. There is a lot you can direct to yourself if you control the main access method.