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Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts

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858 points colesantiago | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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fidotron ◴[02 Sep 25 21:05 UTC] No.45109040[source]▶
This is an astonishing victory for Google, they must be very happy about it.

They get basically everything they want (keeping it all in the tent), plus a negotiating position on search deals where they can refuse something because they can't do it now.

Quite why the judge is so concerned about the rise of AI factoring in here is beyond me. It's fundamentally an anticompetitive decision.

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lysace ◴[02 Sep 25 21:39 UTC] No.45109424[source]▶
From an outsider POV (holding Alphabet stock!): The US legal system seems quite broken.
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ocdtrekkie ◴[02 Sep 25 21:54 UTC] No.45109613[source]▶
It is. Enforcement is incredibly slow (all of the monopolies Google has been ruled against for were obvious in 2014, with appeals they will not face penalties until at least 2030 for most of it), and we have a dictator running the country who will create or erase any case with the right amount of fealty payments. (Google's million to the inauguration fund just... wasn't enough.)
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1. MBCook ◴[02 Sep 25 22:34 UTC] No.45110010[source]▶
So much of this should have been stopped long long ago, like the purchase of Doubleclick.

We’re dealing with fallout decades later and trying to rule on that.

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2. lysace ◴[02 Sep 25 23:19 UTC] No.45110377[source]▶
I guess this kind of justice is bad for business.