No surprise. The US issued any real action in antitrust cases in many decades. I think the AT&T split is really the only major one I can even remember having any real impact on improving competition. Since then lobbying and campaign contributions have skyrocketed and corporations own most of the government anyway, so there’s almost no chance of a court being able to issue a real punishment.
Google gets to remain evil.
Does this mean that Mozilla will continue to receive money from Google?
They ruled that they are still allowed to pay at least, so I assume it will keep going
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google-antitrust-ruling-firefox-search-deal
That’s a separate point in the same case, but yes. The judge also ruled to allow google to keep paying for search engine placement.
