Posted by ChrisArchitect 9/5/2025
I can't find any details about those past cases with regards to - did they actually ended up paying anything at all?
Google is using their own ad exchange to fill ads? Isn't that... Their entire business model? Does the EU just want more intermediaries to exist? At the end of the day doesn't Google still get to decide how much an ad is worth when someone searches 'car insurance'?
To me this reads like the EU should pass a law describing exactly what they want.
>For example, Google Ads was avoiding competing ad exchanges and mainly placing bids on AdX, thus making it the most attractive ad exchange.
I just don't know why Google couldn't do this. Is this an instance of if they just never used other ad exchanges at all no one would be mad? Like Google getting called a monopoly by requiring the play store to be installed on android phones, while Apple obviously does exactly this just on their own hardware?
- Companies advertising through Google were not allowed to collaborate with other advertising companies under Google's contract. - Google runs an ad exchange (AdX) where advertisers and advertising spaces can connect, and Google didn't share platform's data with other members, giving them an unfair market advantage. - They also manipulated the way deals were made on the platform to their advantage.
To me it sounds just wrong anyway that Google runs this platform where companies compete with each other but also Google itself, so they'll always have more control.
I think it's a good idea having these anti trust rules, because otherwise you'll eventually get a a gigantic monopoly economy, and I just think that's not a good idea.
Can it be that any Berlusconi pays, for a speed ticket, the same amount as ordinary people?
I seriously do not understand how Microsoft made it so far not to experience the same.
You as a prosecutor, who will you take to jail? whole committee? Those who voted in-favour? Somebody who brought the proposal? Only CEO?
Each of these decisions if done consistently over time, would invoke changes in companies, to get some fall-guys in right places.
3bn sounds like a lot because we haven't gotten used to the absurd profit levels that these monstrosities have reached.
3B is pocket change to them
Bet it was those who were asked about corruption and cut the microphone to those who really care.
We do deserve better in Europe.
This one is for Google. But Facebook and others do the same. How can we let them do this.
If you have responsability and let this happen, you just allow it.
I believe the reason you got down-voted was because you comment did not add anything of productive to the discussion.