VITecNet@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoGoogle gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust casewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoNah its just the default search engine and you can still change the default, thus not cutting off distribution of other engines.
minus-squareOtter@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoI think they’re referring to Firefox’s funding, a lot of which was through search deals An article from 5 years ago: https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-signs-lucrative-3-year-google-search-deal-for-firefox edit: seems like that hasn’t changed by this ruling either United States District Judge Amit Mehta has ruled that Google can continue to pay other companies, including browser makers like Mozilla, to be their default search engine. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google-antitrust-ruling-firefox-search-deal
Nah its just the default search engine and you can still change the default, thus not cutting off distribution of other engines.
I think they’re referring to Firefox’s funding, a lot of which was through search deals
An article from 5 years ago: https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-signs-lucrative-3-year-google-search-deal-for-firefox
edit: seems like that hasn’t changed by this ruling either
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google-antitrust-ruling-firefox-search-deal