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Re:Judge Rules US v. Google Trial Documents Can Be Posted On... by ttt3ts on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:56AM (#37685393)
It isn't about the browser. It is about search and ads which are not free or open source. There are alternatives but Google's market share is ~92% which is similar level to ie when Microsoft faced it's anti trust case. They pay off mozzila & apple to be default search. Bing has 7% market share and they are the only "real" competition.

The browser is just one more way google maintains it's core search business. E.g. their recently released topics api

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Re:Judge Rules US v. Google Trial Documents Can Be Posted On... by yunwal on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @01:43AM (#37748333)
The claim is that Google is using their dominance in browsers to unfairly drive business to their search/ads product. Yes, google has more market dominance in search but that’s not the reason for the lawsuit.
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