were revisited. Now that the department’s demands have been made public it turns out they’re even more punishing than previously thought.and Chrome separated, it also wants to ban the company from releasing another browser for at least five years. This is no doubt to let consumers get accustomed to Chrome’s new management instead of jumping ship for Chrome 2.0 or something similar.
Judge Amit Mehta — who has previously ruled against Google’s search monopoly — will be presiding over the case. The hearing is set to take place in April of next year and Google will undoubtedly try to lessen the severity of the DOJ’s demands. Lastly, the DOJ has also demanded that Google be more transparent with advertisers that use its platform. Said advertisers should also be given an option to opt out of their data being used to train Google’s AI models.