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European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices

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398 points ChrisArchitect | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.318s | source
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isodev ◴[05 Sep 25 17:50 UTC] No.45141438[source]▶
Oh nice. I hope other countries follow suit. It’s quite a shame Google didn’t get Chrome divested from them in the US, would’ve been a “nature is healing” moment for the web.
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richwater ◴[05 Sep 25 17:53 UTC] No.45141476[source]▶
Running a browser without an ecosystem behind it is a money pit and would be worth almost 0.
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isodev ◴[05 Sep 25 17:54 UTC] No.45141494[source]▶
Doesn’t matter, as consumers, we’re absolutely ducked from all sides as long as our “window into the web” is fully controlled by a single corp.
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mupuff1234 ◴[05 Sep 25 17:58 UTC] No.45141528[source]▶
And if Chrome were to be divested it would have just gotten swallowed up by a different corp, most likely to end up in worse hands imo.

Can you name any other company that if they owned Chrome it would've been better for the users and the web?

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1. isodev ◴[05 Sep 25 18:06 UTC] No.45141635[source]▶
The issue is that Google is both the browser, the web standards, the ads, the mail, the search, the phone, the AI, the maps… not a chance to compete with any of that as long as it’s all in one. The only other barely approaching this level is Apple, and we know they have their own anticompetitive aspects. Allowing corps to grow so much should never have been a thing.