GoKawiilJudge orders Google to open ad-tech systems, rejects forced breakup
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued a remedies order requiring Google to make its ad-tech products interoperable with rival platforms, share more auction data with publishers, and accept an internal compliance monitor. The ruling stops short of the Justice Department's push to force Google to sell off parts of its advertising technology business, despite Brinkema's earlier finding that Google illegally maintained a monopoly in the ad-tech market.
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The decision shows courts are increasingly willing to find Google guilty of antitrust violations but reluctant to impose structural breakups, favoring behavioral fixes instead. That distinction matters enormously for Google's business model and for publishers who depend on its ad auction systems, since interoperability and transparency requirements are far less disruptive than a forced sale of assets.
- Google must open ad-tech tools to competitors and disclose more auction data to publishers.
- The court rejected a full breakup of Google's ad-tech business despite an earlier antitrust violation finding.
- An internal monitor will oversee Google's compliance with the new remedies.
Source: techspot.com — Skye Jacobs, 2026-09-17
Published there as: “A judge ruled Google broke antitrust law, then let it keep its entire ad-tech business”
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