"Google’s illegal conduct has created an economic goliath, one that wreaks havoc over the marketplace to ensure that—no matter what occurs—Google always wins," the DOJ filing says. To that end, the government maintains that Chrome must go if the playing field is to be made level again.

On Friday, the US Department of Justice ended its bid to make Google sell off its stakes in Anthropic. The government, which won a crucial antitrust ruling against Google's illegal monopoly in its search engine business in August,