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Hopefully this makes it illegal for Google to pay other software to make it the default search engine.
Next step should be: "Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet ad-network, judge rules" (with the link to the browser technology harming anti-ad tools with deprecating Google's Manifest V2 (MV2) and forcing V3 for the leading browser)
The monkey's paw curls, Mozilla now has no income and goes out of business
Seriously. What are they going to do next?
Google could always donate the money to Mozilla and let Mozilla make the right choice, though I'm not sure if legislators will accept that. It's not like Google would even notice a traffic drop if Mozilla stopped shipping Google as a default. Hell, with Firefox's tracking protection, they may be glad to lose the extra load that doesn't help revenue streams.
Luckily, Firefox has such a tiny sliver of market share that rarely anyone will notice. Bigger browsers, like Safari, are more likely. To catch the regulators' eyes.
They may just keep donating anyway so they don't get an anticompetitive suit