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

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858 points colesantiago | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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crazygringo ◴[02 Sep 25 22:33 UTC] No.45109997[source]▶
Oh course it is, but is there another country that is any better at antitrust? I haven't seen it. And remembering that antitrust which goes too far is just as harmful as antitrust that is too weak.
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1. girvo ◴[03 Sep 25 02:29 UTC] No.45111681[source]▶
They can’t be, because the FAANG (or whatever we call them today) companies are de facto a part of the US government (with the context of some other country trying to break them up)

Antitrust that is nonexistent is far more harmful.