{"id":127,"date":"2020-10-26T19:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T18:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betterweb.qwant.com\/2020\/10\/26\/european-antitrust-the-android-choice-screen-must-evolve-promptly\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T15:10:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T13:10:44","slug":"european-antitrust-the-android-choice-screen-must-evolve-promptly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betterweb.qwant.com\/en\/2020\/10\/26\/european-antitrust-the-android-choice-screen-must-evolve-promptly\/","title":{"rendered":"European Antitrust: the Android Choice Screen must evolve promptly"},"content":{"rendered":"
Qwant continues its fight to allow Internet users to freely choose their search engine on their phone.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n For more than five years, Qwant has regularly informed the European Commission of the harmful effects of Google’s anti-competitive practices, which deprive consumers of normal access to a diverse range of search engines. Together with the Open Internet Project (OIP) collective, we filed a complaint against these practices on March 6, 2017, joining our voice to other European search engines such as the Czech Seznam or the Russian Yandex, who also complainants. These complaints enabled the European Commission to confirm an abuse of dominant position and to sentence Google<\/a> to a 4.34 billion euro fine in July 2018.<\/p>\n Two years later, Qwant welcomes the fact that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has also formally filed a complaint against Google<\/a> to put an end to abusive practices that harm all Internet users by preventing search engines from offering their services normally, and therefore from investing in their development. After a lengthy investigation, the DOJ, like the Commission before it, was able to verify that Google had indeed used the Android system as a key locking any possibility for a search engine other than itself to be chosen by consumers.<\/p>\n We believe that these investigations and decisions must lead in the shortest possible time to finally put a genuine end to abuses, by giving Internet users the possibility to freely choose the search engine they want on their phone.<\/p>\n