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LeoPanthera ◴[] No.45108877[source]
The BBC is reporting the exact opposite of this headline.

"It's also free to keep making payments to partners such as Apple, to secure placement of its browser - another closely watched and contentious part of the case."

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cg50dlj9gm4t

Edit: Even the CNBC body text contradicts its own headline. The confusion seems to be what "exclusive" means.

"The company can make payments to preload products, but they cannot have exclusive contracts, the decision showed."

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thayne ◴[] No.45109426[source]
It sounds to me like they can pay Apple to pre-install chrome on Apple devices. But they can't pay Apple or Mozilla to be the default search engine in their browsers (Safari and Firefox).

And the latter is going to be pretty bad for Mozilla.

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1. makeitdouble ◴[] No.45110266[source]
So they have to change the item name in their yearly check to Apple and Mozilla, and let them do the rest on their own ?