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September 10, 2026
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The focus now moves from ownership to conduct. Google will retain its ad exchange, popularly known as AdX, and DFP but the final judgment will restrict how those businesses operate and interact with publishers and competing ad tech companies.

However, Google must accept most of the behavioral restrictions proposed in the case, although the judge has modified some of them. Google keeps the businesses, but rules will govern what it can and cannot do with them.

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Google avoided (yet another) breakup... now comes the test of the ad tech remedies

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