A federal judge has ruled that Google may retain ownership of its Chrome browser, but it will have to make some changes to do so.

In a 226-page decision in a major anti-trust case against Google, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C. argued that the plaintiffs “overreached” in their efforts to get the tech giant to divest Chrome, given that Google didn’t conduct any illegal behaviour with the browser.

That said, Mehta also ruled that Google must share Chrome search index and user-interaction data — but not ad-related information — with competitors. On top of that, Google will be limited in the number of deals it can sign with other companies to make the likes of Search, Chrome and Gemini the default apps on various devices.

These concessions are aimed at better levelling th

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