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2026-07-02 23:19:10

randahl@mastodon.social

Google loses its appeal and will now have to pay the record breaking fine of €4.125.000.000 for abusing its Android dominance to force Google search onto phones.

I love the EU! 🇪🇺♥️ 🇪🇺

https://youtu.be/ydZ2PVzT_NE?si=pkRlq9pIusNDCZXO

2026-07-02 23:34:19

Dave Robinson

dave@europhiles.uk

@randahl
That's a lot of Euros; surely they won't end up paying it?

2026-07-03 00:16:41

The Animal and the Machine

taatm@mathstodon.xyz

@randahl
Here we go!

Trump failing to ensure America defends Europe has now cost Google €4.125bn.

It won’t be long for the Google tax, where they actually get taxed annually by Europe.

2026-07-03 00:36:55

Josh

krnlg@mastodon.social

@randahl Nowhere near enough. The company should be broken up, no corporation should be that big. They are bigger than governments, bigger than states...

2026-07-03 01:12:08

Toni Aittoniemi

gimulnautti@mastodon.green

@randahl FYI, that’s NOT 4 point 125 billion Euros. That’s 4 milliard Euros, a billion is a million millions in correct Euro measurements. 🧐

2026-07-03 01:13:31

xs4me2

xs4me2@mastodon.social

@randahl

Great indeed, because enough is enough…

2026-07-03 01:32:19

naught101

naught101@mastodon.social

@randahl now do the same thing for app stores.

2026-07-03 01:46:58

disorderlyf

disorderlyf@todon.eu

@randahl Wait until they find out what Android is doing to third party app stores.

2026-07-03 02:39:14

Francis Mangion (M)

franciswashere@mastodon.social

#EU #Android

2026-07-03 03:05:40

Lilly

isocat@mastodon.social

@randahl same EU proposing chat control

2026-07-03 04:31:59

tenkuma

tenkuma@mstdn.social

@randahl and developer verification shows no signs of stopping... IP fingerprinting also just rolled out. There should be way less people alienated before something significant happening to Google. I don't think there's a place on earth someone can think what this company does is right after understanding the moral, privacy and sovereignty implications of what they force down our throat year after year. But stuff don't get into regular people radar.

https://keepandroidopen.org

2026-07-03 05:37:33

Crystal_Fish_Caves

Crystal_Fish_Caves@mstdn.party

@randahl
OH That kind of Appeal. I was like, really when did google have appeal? my mistake. That is much more gratifying.

2026-07-03 06:02:11

Harshal Suryawanshi 🇮🇳

driftingThoughts@mastodon.online

@randahl Next they should look into this 'Play Integrity' bullying. Many apps just don't work if you are not running a Google certified version of Android on your phone.

2026-07-03 06:12:07

contrasocial

contrasocial@mastodon.social

@randahl

The power of anti-trust ⚡️💪⚡️

2026-07-03 07:44:59

luca

luc0x61@mastodon.uno

@randahl In the EU commission words, it took 15 years to that result ("one decade and half").
In 15 more years they will discover how in this while Google and Apple will have completely killed any alternative, to a no return point.

2026-07-03 08:08:13

billy joe bowers 🗽

billyjoebowers@mastodon.online

@randahl

Google lost it's appeal for me a long time ago.

2026-07-03 08:27:45

Jürgen Libertus

juergenlibertus@social.cologne

@randahl now you know why Trump and the Techbros hate the EU.

2026-07-03 09:25:14

Alexander Goeres 𒀯

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Randahl Fink that can't be european billions, that mus be anglosphere billions ...

2026-07-03 11:59:48

Michael Hartle

mhartle@mastodon.online

@randahl Good news - hoping to see a similar action of the @EUCommission on the incoming anti-competitive lockdown of the Android ecosystem next.

https://keepandroidopen.org

2026-07-03 12:17:48

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

TimWardCam@c.im

@randahl I'll believe it when we're told that the fine has actually been paid.

Regulators (of various kinds) are always making these big announcements about fines that have been issued, but I pretty well never see any announcements of fines that have actually been paid (years or decades later when the appeals have been exhausted).

2026-07-03 17:50:03

Tizian 「ティツィアーン」

raisondetredev@mastodon.de

@randahl I am getting more and more acquainted with the "reform" currently getting implemented in Germany and I must say: if it weren't for the protections by the E.U. they'd gut the privacy rights even more just to hop onto the LLM hype.

2026-07-04 08:30:30

Axel

tetrapyloctomist@muenchen.social

@randahl
Maybe it's just me - but at #Alphabet"s scale, 4 billion € rather seems like a tip than a #fine: The number of active #Android users worldwide has been estimated at 3.9 billion in 2025. Android's market share is estimated at 70%. So the fine is a bit more than 1 € per active user in 2025 - for a company that averages more than 40 €/a per active user.
And fining #Google took more than a decade. In this time, their revenue as well as their market cap increased by a factor of 10... 🙄