Browser Bucks

In the 1998 Microsoft antitrust case, Microsoft forced PC makers not to install competitive internet browsers if they wanted Windows desktop software to crush competition. In Google’s current antitrust case, we now know that Google paid Apple/Samsung/Motorola/AT&T/T-Mobile/Mozilla and many others $26.3 billion in 2021 to make Google’s search engine the default. This pay-to-tap approach is superficially more classy but effectively identical to Microsoft’s boorish behavior. The judge must forbid pay-to-tap.