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Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules

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863 points IdealeZahlen | 1 comments | 17 Apr 25 14:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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megaman821 ◴[17 Apr 25 15:50 UTC] No.43718617[source]▶
I don't think this article explains it well. Google sells ad space on behalf of the publishers and also sells the ads on behalf of the advertisers. It also runs the auction that places the ads into the ad space. See this graphic https://images.app.goo.gl/ADx5xrAnWNicgoFu7. Parts of this can definately be broken up without destroying Google.
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crowcroft ◴[17 Apr 25 16:51 UTC] No.43719395[source]▶
When a media buyer puts $1.00 in on one side of the system, on average only $0.60 makes it to the publisher. In some cases less than $0.50 gets to them.

Advertising is an intentionally complex system so that companies can clip the ticket at multiple stages throughout the process. Google should be broken up, but the whole ad tech system needs to go into the bin if these problems are going to ever get fixed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/02/15/how-muc...

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aiauthoritydev ◴[17 Apr 25 17:39 UTC] No.43719973[source]▶
As someone who has worked in AdTech I would respectfully disagree. It is indeed complex but it is incredibly efficient. Also it is irrelevant of whether publisher earns 75% or 30% of the total revenue. What matters is how much they are earning compared to the next best alternative.

Some companies like Google are incredible at this. Google is not a "monopoly" in this space. In fact the world has far too many Google equivalents but absolutely no one comes close to Google in generating top dollars for publishers. I am saying this after working for 10+ years competing against Google.

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1. udev4096 ◴[18 Apr 25 05:08 UTC] No.43725204[source]▶
Your opinion is biased from the fact that you worked on "adtech". How can you justify it? You are the reason the web is bloated and lost the true idea of it a long time ago. Luckily, there are people who run pi-hole and adguard who have my utmost respect along with countless people who maintain an upto-date ad-block list