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

It’s amusing to see how HN, notoriously pro-privacy and anti-ads seemingly dislikes this kind of news.

It also traditionally heavily anti Europe, for reasons

I've been assuming that most of the anti-American comments here were probably written by Americans, but I don't really know.

That’s my take as well. Europeans (in my experience) tend to be less, ahem, ignorantly optimistic, of how well it would go.

They also started to support censorship and government approved social media content.

See the recent thread about Nepal banning many apps and the comments are full of people saying that the EU should do the same or require that the content be even more moderated on all the platforms.

It's very sad to see.

I come here for the hacker news but it seems we are being overrun by a new kind of people who love when the EU intervenes to "regulate" the markets and fully believe that the EU is "pro" privacy (TM) and can't wait to impose new regulations all the while it's actually working to undermine encryption for everyone in Europe.

I guess the old saying is true, War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.