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Posted by ChrisArchitect 9/5/2025

European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices(ec.europa.eu)
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KebabKanaken 9/5/2025|
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mrtksn 9/5/2025|
They should have force Google to sell to a EU buyer instead? Like the true, elected capitalist way?
npalli 9/5/2025||
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xandrius 9/5/2025|
One comes from an orangutan because he wants to get it hard and please his fanbase and the other is because a specific company broke a law of a region.

The two couldn't be more different than that. And I find it hard to believe your comment is genuine given the obvious difference.

richwater 9/5/2025||
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dragonwriter 9/5/2025||
Yeah, its not like the US is also pursuing an antitrust actions against Google, including one for its abusive ad tech practices.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-prevails-l...

richwater 9/5/2025||
Lina Khan's success record is/was horrendous.

In the most recent case, Google may have "lost" but the government got nowhere near what it was asking for either.

orwin 9/5/2025|||
Honestly, on this particular case that's on the judge and your current culture, not Khan. Before the 80s, Google would have been forced to separate its two ads divisions, to make some space for new companies and actors.

If Lina Khan only victory is that people are now aware that having a government this friendly with monopolies isn't normal, that's probably better than most politicians since Clinton.

dragonwriter 9/5/2025||
> Honestly, on this particular case that's on the judge and your current culture, not Khan. Before the 80s, Google would have been forced to separate its two ads divisions, to make some space for new companies and actors.

The case in which the government didn’t get what it wanted was the online search case; the trial in the remedy phase of the ad tech case starts later this month, so talking about the difference between what Google would have gotten in the 1980s for that and what they are actually getting now is premature speculation.

orwin 9/5/2025||
Oh sorry then, i guess my lack of following and my pessimism has taken over proper verification. Hopefully the US government break Google adtech in two different companies.
miltonlost 9/5/2025|||
Do you think it's fair to put the recent case on Lisa Khan when a) the Google antitrust lawsuit was started in Trump v1.0 and b) the trial remedy was during Trump 2.0? If anything, that Google was found to have antitrust behavior bolsters her success rate. She's not in charge there anymore, so blaming her is very very suspect.
octo888 9/5/2025|||
They let them get away with tons for years/decades before doing anything serious
isoprophlex 9/5/2025|||
US big tech has become so hostile to democracy and human values it's laughable.
udev4096 9/5/2025||
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tomhow 7 days ago||
This is what needs to stop. Just stick to the substantive contributions please.
udev4096 7 days ago||
Wow you really are persistent. I am too easy to engage in ragebaits it seems
tomhow 7 days ago||
We have to be persistent to stop HN from being worse than it already is ;)
osigurdson 9/5/2025||
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octo888 9/5/2025|
Depends if it even gets paid. Probably a couple of years in dispute at least
UrineSqueegee 9/5/2025||
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fsflover 9/5/2025|
That's a shallow dismissal, which is against the HN guidelines.
nemo44x 7 days ago||
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tomhow 6 days ago|||
Comments like this have never been OK on HN, and the people who have been making consistently good contributions since the earliest days do not attack other users like this. If you’re concerned about a decline of HN, we need you to observe the guidelines that have been in place since well before your account was registered.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mentalgear 7 days ago|||
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tomhow 6 days ago||
Please don't respond to a bad comment with another bad comment. Better to just flag and move on.
icanthulahoop 9/5/2025||
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juajajajaj 9/5/2025||
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tossandthrow 9/5/2025||
Only as a response to the US establishing anti competitive practices for their tech industry.
Sammi 9/5/2025|||
You can keep your US tech companies. In EU we actually need our own. It's long overdue.
bgwalter 9/5/2025||
It is almost like a 15% tariff on Google. I wonder who did that first.
henryzhou 9/5/2025||
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StopDisinfo910 9/5/2025|
US Tech Giants use tax optimisation created by the single market to avoid EU taxes to the tune of billions a year. That’s on top of them getting far too much access to public markets in the EU including for plenty of things EU companies are bared from by the Buy American Act in the US.

The idea that EU is somehow a mob boss shaking down American tech companies is plain ridiculous. Just take a look at the EU-US trade balance in service and you will understand in which direction the money is actually flying.

greatwhitenorth 9/5/2025||
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tossandthrow 9/5/2025|
It is not that the EU can't compete, it is that the US don't enforce their own antitrust laws - and that the EU has to step in to ensure fair competition.
rednafi 9/5/2025|
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jjani 9/5/2025||
US tech does everything it can to forcefully monopolize a market; US tech gets fined by countries who care about it.
9dev 9/5/2025|||
You don’t seem to understand how the EU works, or what it even is in the first place. A hint: it’s not a singular entity when it comes to "needing" money.
izacus 9/5/2025|||
I'm looking forward to my north/south rail corridor funded by Google. Better than waymo.
AdventureMouse 9/5/2025|||
It has nothing to do with money and everything to do with ideology.
BDPW 9/5/2025|||
This is a ridiculous take, the EU has a budget of 180 billion a year. People keep repeating this but its just idiotic.
thoroughburro 9/5/2025||
> EU needs money; EU fines US tech companies. No surprise there.

And it’s just a coincidence that they chose a company engaged in wrongdoing which breaks their laws, huh?

Please, with this cynical edgelord shit.

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