Epic Sues Samsung, Google, Apple

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Epic is suing Google — again — and now Samsung too

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Fortnite game developer Epic has filed a second antitrust lawsuit against Google , and now additionally Samsung .

The lawsuit revolves around Samsung ’s “Auto Blocker” feature, which now comes turned-on-by-default on new Samsung phones.

Epic claims it now requires “an exceptionally onerous 21 -step process” to download a third -party app store onto a Samsung phone.

Epic claims Google ’s previous attempts to add friction to third -party apps (“ Unknown Sources ”) caused half the people who clicked “download” to give up partway.

In Epic v. Google , the company argued that the Unknown Sources install flow made it so hard to attract new users to a rival app store that Epic was forced to bring Fortnite to Google 's store.

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