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DOJ wants Google to sell Chrome and possibly Android, more (9to5google.com)
submitted 1 month ago by askat to c/android
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The government is not asking for Google to sell Android right away, but it wants that option if other measures it imposes don’t work to restore competition. In general:

For the avoidance of doubt, Google must not provide itself with preferential access to Android or Google-owned apps or data as compared to the access it provides to all other GSEs and AI Products…

Google cannot:

  • “make any Google GSE [general search engine], Search Text Ads, or AI Product (including on-device AI) mandatory on Android Devices”
  • “reduce, prevent, or otherwise interfere with the distribution of rival GSE, Search Text Ads, or AI Products on Android Devices”
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[–] onlinepersona 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's their position for the next 2 months... after that they'll be able to just cash out a check to some politicians and it'll be forgotten.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] askat 5 points 1 month ago

Sadly, you are probably right.

[–] SatouKazuma 3 points 1 month ago

I'd love to see Android divested and bought by a non-profit body, but expecting the US to do anything right is several universes too far. America was a mistake...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Why does "it want" and why would "it ask"? They're the government. Order them to sell Chrome. Arrest them if they don't.