Here’s How to Claim Your Share of the $700 Million Google Settlement
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The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
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Summary
On Dec. 10, it was announced that Google would pay nearly $700 million in settlements to people who paid to download apps from the Google Play Store.
The announcement came in the form of a statement from multiple state attorneys general, who were collectively suing Google for anti-competitive practices.
Google decided to settle this lawsuit—along with several other concessions—and, in so doing, will pay $700 million, the bulk of which will go to the actual users.
Let’s go through the details of the case: what Google was accused of doing, how the settlement money will be disbursed, and how you can know if you qualify.
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| 0:00.0 | On Wednesday, December the 10th, it was announced that Google will be paying out nearly $700 million in settlement to people who paid money to download apps through the Google Play Store, which I would imagine includes many of the people watching this video right now. |
| 0:17.2 | Now, this announcement came in the form of a statement from the Attorney General in multiple |
| 0:21.9 | states who were collectively suing Google for anti-competitive practices. |
| 0:27.0 | Google decided to settle this lawsuit, and in so doing, among several other concessions, |
| 0:31.6 | they'll be paying out $700 million, the bulk of which is going to the actual users. |
| 0:36.9 | And so let's go through the |
| 0:37.8 | details of the case, what Google was accused of doing, how the settlement money will be dispersed, |
| 0:43.3 | and also how you can know whether you qualify or not. And as always, before we jump into it, |
| 0:48.5 | if you appreciate content like this and you hope more people will become aware that Google owes |
| 0:53.7 | the money, well, I hope you smash those like and subscribe button so that this video can reach ever more people will become aware that Google owes the money, well, I hope you smash |
| 0:55.3 | those like and subscribe button so that this video can reach ever more people via the algorithm, |
| 0:59.8 | which is ironically YouTube's algorithm owned by Google. So thank you for that. |
| 1:04.3 | Now, the case in question stems back to the year 2020. That was when a company called Epic Games, |
| 1:09.3 | the maker of Fortnite, they filed a lawsuit against Google, |
| 1:12.9 | arguing that Google was unfairly controlling how apps were being distributed as well as paid for on Android phones. |
| 1:19.4 | The crux of their argument was threefold. |
| 1:22.8 | Firstly, Epic Games argued that Google was forcing app makers to use the Google Play Store. |
| 1:29.0 | Even though technically Android is supposed to be an open operating system, |
| 1:33.1 | the lawsuit argued that Google was using things like contracts, warnings, |
| 1:37.2 | as well as general technical barriers to steer people back to the Google Play Store. |
| 1:42.1 | Basically, the first argument in the case was that Google made it very hard for Android users |
| 1:47.0 | to get apps anywhere other than the Google Play Store. |
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