Mozilla tells DOJ to let Google continue search payments – The Register
Mozilla, which in 2023 received about 75 percent of its revenue from royalties paid by Google and other search providers for search engine usage in Firefox, worries that the US Justice Department’s proposed ban on the very same Google Search payments would be rather harmful.
American federal prosecutors last week filed their revised proposed remedies [PDF] in their case against Google to restore competition in the web search market, which the internet titan was found to have unlawfully monopolized.
The Feds dropped a prior recommendation to force Google to sell off its AI investments, but still want Google to shed its Chrome browser and to prohibit the mega-corp’s search-related payments to distribution partners such as Apple and Mozilla – their browsers “distribute” Google Search by making it the default search engine.
Google’s payments to Apple for making its search service the default in the Safari browser, which reached around $20 billion in 2022, discouraged competition, as the…
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