Goodbye Google Chrome US Department of Justice asks Google to get rid of its browser
A trial is underway in the United States against Google, where the Mountain View-based company is accused of monopolizing the search engine industry. As part of the lawsuit, the US Department of Justice has filed a series of proposals with the judge to end the monopoly, the most powerful of which is undoubtedly to force the giant Google to get rid of its web browser, Google Chrome.
According to Bloomberg, the US Department of Justice recently sent the judge in the antitrust case against Google a series of recommendations to end the overwhelming dominance of the large Google search engine, which will be announced tomorrow and most notably of all, they demand that Google sell its web browser, Chrome, because it “represents a major access point through which many people use its search engine.”
This could obviously have serious consequences not only for Google but also for the rest of the browsers that use Chromium, the open source version of Chrome, as their default engine like Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera or Vivaldi.
In fact, according to the aforementioned source, the US Department of Justice initially wanted to force Google to sell Android, but eventually suggested to the judge in the antitrust suit that Google “separate its Android smartphone operating system from its other products, including its search engine and mobile app store Google Play.”
However, the arrival of the new Donald Trump administration in January could change the Justice Department’s priorities. In the past, Trump was open to the idea of breaking up Google into several companies, but in the final months of the election campaign he changed his mind, accusing the Biden administration and the current Justice Department of going too far in regulating tech companies.