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US Department of Justice reportedly recommends that Google be forced to sell Chrome, and boy does Google not like that: 'The government putting its thumb on the scale'


Chrome is the biggest browser in the world, accounting for around 65% of all web traffic.

Antitrust officials, alongside several US states that have joined the case, will ask federal judge Amit Mehta to order Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, to sell off Chrome, with markets already scrambling to work out what the browser may be worth. Chrome is the most popular internet browser in the world (web tracker Similarweb puts its current global market share at 64.61%), and integrated fully with Google's lucrative ads business. Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice.

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