> Even more specifically this is a report that they pay a cut of advertising revenue for searches performed via Chrome on iOS, as in not Safari.

TFA claims that in section 5.118, Google pays a cut for people using Safari as well.

"Under these agreements, Apple receives a significant share of revenue from Google Search traffic on Safari and [x] on iOS devices."

Chrome on iOS is just safari with a chrome wrapper, like every other browser on iOS. It doesn’t surprise me that the revenue deal works for all browsers because they’re all using Safari under the hood…

Why? The money comes from being default search engine in the default browser. If a user goes out of their way to use chrome… they we’re probably going to switch to Google search.

My only guess is that apple was gunna force all browser apps to respect default search engine settings unless Google paid the money.