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

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398 points ChrisArchitect | 3 comments | 05 Sep 25 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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1. jaredklewis ◴[05 Sep 25 18:37 UTC] No.45142038[source]▶
Is it? I use Firefox. Can’t you just not use chrome, no legal interventions required?
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2. fsflover ◴[05 Sep 25 20:42 UTC] No.45143348[source]▶
Tell that to billions of normies who followed Google's (illegal) ads of Chrome.
3. blackqueeriroh ◴[06 Sep 25 03:25 UTC] No.45146353[source]▶
Firefox is only financially sustainable because of the massive payments Google makes to Mozilla to set Google as the default search service.