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by chrisco255 2506 days ago
I feel pretty strongly that Google (and Apple) should be forced to offer a choice for default search engine on their mobile devices. Microsoft was pretty handily sued and accused of antitrust for not offering this option on Windows desktop browsers. Google benefitted a great deal from that and it only makes sense that they should have to play by the same rules.
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That's exactly the process this article is referencing. Google is being forced to offer a default choice in the EU. They are using a market-based auction price method to determine which of their competitors value the spots the most. The company in question has an objection as to how the options are being selected.
Safari on iOS does (options are Google, Yahoo, Bing, and DuckDuckGo on iOS 12.4). A brief search indicates that there are similar options on Android as well, though I don't have a device to confirm.