The Google Ad Breakup Is Real: What the DOJ Forced Divestiture Means for Everyone Using the Internet On April 17, 2025, Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia looked at two decades of Google's ad tech dominance and called it what it is: an illegal monopoly. The ruling was unambiguous. Google "willfully acquired and maintained monopoly power" in the markets for publisher ad...

Google's Ad Tech Empire Is One Ruling Away From Getting Broken Up What Judge Brinkema Actually Ruled In April 2025, Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia handed the Department of Justice its second major antitrust win against Google, ruling that the company had illegally monopolized two markets at the heart of the open web: publisher ad servers...