Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements (www.justice.gov)
from Pro@programming.dev to degoogle@lemmy.ml on 03 Sep 01:36
https://programming.dev/post/36779068

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36778872

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- Hacker News.

230-page PDF.

Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app; ordered Google to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals; and ordered Google to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.

The court’s ruling today recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade. The ruling also recognizes the need to prevent Google from using the same anticompetitive tactics for its GenAI products as it used to monopolize the search market, and the remedies will reach GenAI technologies and companies.

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sorghum@sh.itjust.works on 03 Sep 02:17 next collapse

Well this cements the need to move to a Linux phone.

[deleted] on 03 Sep 09:12 collapse

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fodor@lemmy.zip on 03 Sep 10:18 next collapse

Yeah that’s the problem, you need a phone that will let you.

sorghum@sh.itjust.works on 03 Sep 18:28 collapse

I already am running GrapheneOS and at this point I’m ready to just be done with Android. The way Google has been fucking over the GrapheneOS guys makes me realize that so long as Google controls the upstream, they can fuck us all over.

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml on 03 Sep 02:55 next collapse

“The legal system will regulate the corporations!”

The legal system:

chottomatte@lemdro.id on 03 Sep 04:57 next collapse

orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements

Meanwhile Google: bye bye sideloading without our verification

lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml on 03 Sep 05:25 next collapse

Capitalism loves monopoly

bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml on 03 Sep 06:58 next collapse

Damn. IT didn’t happen and now this, not a good day

MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com on 03 Sep 19:07 next collapse

I don’t trust Google at all, but there’s an argument to be made that people using Google trust Google. Now that trust is being forcibly compromised by having Google share all that data with anyone? That data was presumably for sale anyways, but now it’s just there. This is worse than the worst possible outcome I would have imagined.

WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works on 04 Sep 00:23 next collapse

who the absolute fuck cares about data sharing! do not collect the data to begin with! corporations win, data brokers win, users lose.

desmosthenes@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 04:04 collapse

Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium