“It’s not absurd, right?” Christian Kroll, CEO of Berlin-based non-profit search engine Ecosia , says of his company’s unsolicited request to be granted a 10-year “stewardship” of Google’s Chrome browser, instead of forcing Google to sell it to a competitor.

His idea is most definitely absurd, but also clever.

On Thursday, Ecosia announced it had sent a proposal regarding Chrome to U.S. Judge Mehta. The judge is expected to rule this month on remedies to his 2024 landmark decision that Google has an illegal monopoly in internet search and advertising.

One of the remedies the Department of Justice asked for would force Google to divest itself from Chrome. Google has not agreed to do so (and in 2024 vowed to appeal the original ruling). Still, competitors have been lining up to buy

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