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District Judge Amit Mehta said Google's billions in payments to keep its search engine as the default on web browsers violated US law. "After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly," Mehta wrote.

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Found this and I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/google-expands-play-store-age-verification-globally-10810061/lite/

Idk how effective it'll be (as they point out in the article itself, not all parents may move forward in setting up age ranges, children can also bypass such systems by just creating alternative accounts and lying about their ages), and I'm not sure how valid these claims are since the bigger news outlets haven't covered them yet, but I wanted to know your thoughts on it

🌐⭐️Google Play Store update. Yeah, this doesn't seem effective at all. ⭐️🌐

Like you and the article said, this is easy to bypass. Once again, it makes age verfication a complete failure.

All of this stuff Google is trying to do is ridiculous. I think this is more about gathering sensitive info at this point from everyone and selling it to third parties. That includes a minors data too.

I mean, multiple websites (Disney, Netflix, Microsoft, Roku, Meta, even Google, etc.) were caught collecting a minors' information and selling it to third parties even though in some places that is illegal, like in the US, for example, with COPPA.

So yeah, that's one of the main things I think Google is trying to do in this situation.

(Thank you, @candyguts-blog , for the news :) 🙏💕)

Google will have to give up search data to competitors but can keep Chrome and Android, a federal judge ruled in the landmark antitrust case

Main takeaways:

Judge Amit Mehta ruled last year that Google illegally monopolized online search and advertising by paying companies like Apple and Samsung billions of dollars a year to install Google as the default search engine on smartphones and web browsers.

Mehta instead put restrictions on – but did not ban – the payments Google makes to get prominent placement in web browsers on smartphones. Google spends billions each year to be the default search engine on web browsers and smartphones. It can continue to make the payments but cannot enter into exclusive contracts.

The Justice Department said the ruling "recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade" especially with the rise of artificial intelligence.

The Court has imposed limits on how we distribute Google services, and will require us to share Search data with rivals. We have concerns about how these requirements will impact our users and their privacy," Google said in a statement.

This Google quote though... "...We have concerns about how these requirements will impact our users and their privacy," Google said in a statement.