Google will pay £260M to settle a UK class action over Play Store commissions, roughly a quarter of the £1B the claim had been valued at. Barry Rodger, the competition law academic behind the case, argued that Google shut off every other route to Android users and then took a commission of usually 30% on what developers sold. Both sides filed the proposal on Thursday, weeks before the Competition Appeal Tribunal was due to hear it, and Google conceded nothing, maintaining in the 19-page agreement that it has “strong defences” to the claim. Anyone who sold through the UK store from August 2018 to July 2026 would share £160M, while the remaining £100M is set aside for legal costs and the funders who bankrolled the case. The tribunal still has to approve the deal.
