Department of Justice to Compel Google to Sell Chrome, Bloomberg Reports

Google recently said selling off Chrome would “break” the popular web browser

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The U.S. Department of Justice is planning on asking a judge to compel Alphabet, the parent company of Google, to sell off its Chrome browser, according to a report from Bloomberg on Monday.

Chrome, according to stats provided by SimilarWeb, is the most popular web browser in the U.S., with 54% of Americans using it as their default browser; the next most-used browser is Apple’s Safari, which 33.4% of Americans use first.

Monday’s report comes after the same judge, Amit Mehta, sided with the DOJ in August and ruled Google broke antitrust laws in order to hold its monopoly on web searches.

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