Google will have to pay more than 4,100 million dollars for monopolistic practices in the EU

It’s been many years since Google ditched its “Don’t be Evil” slogan or “Don’t be Bad”. From beginning its journey as a fairly friendly company with a search engine that soon won the favoritism of users, as it grew and engulfed other companies such as Maps or Androi, the company put aside its policy (or at least image in the face of the gallery) of “good company”, and began to apply questionable and directly illegal practices to eliminate its competition. In fact, you only have to take a look at the “Fines technology companies” tag to see that Google has a “dominant position” there too.

Such has been the level of this behavior, that a few years ago Google already paid more money in fines than in taxes, and now, they have earned the “honor” of having to pay the largest fine in history for abusing their dominant position, after have lost the appeal.

The company takes advantage of its monopoly situation in several countries to impose its conditions and suffocate any company that dares to confront them. In the case of this fine, which has been ratified by the European Commission, Google will have to pay more than 4,100 million dollars for force manufacturers to install their bloatware (google apps and services) if they wanted access to the app store.

In this way, if any manufacturer wanted their phones to have the Play Store, they are forced to install applications such as Chrome and Google search illegally.

It will be necessary to see if the company tries to appeal this decision for the last time and if it continues to take advantage of its situation in the market. What is certain is that regulatory authorities around the world are already targeting this type of behavior by Google.

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