I’ll be honest, personally I think the nail in the coffin was the Spotify-deal. If Google had been able to prove that it either has no special deals or only with tiny publishers (so it feels more like helping the underdog) then I don’t think they could have claimed that Google is treating anybody unfairly.
Read more than the headline before you post, tbh.
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Changed this because to be fair, if English isn’t your primary language you might be unaware that you can lose a court case, not only profits or market share. The word is used in a lot of contexts.