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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: 0.001s | source
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aucisson_masque ◴[05 Sep 25 20:51 UTC] No.45143447[source]▶
What the US couldn't do, Europe just did ?

> The Commission has already signalled its preliminary view that only the divestment by Google of part of its services would address the situation of inherent conflicts of interest, but it first wishes to hear and assess Google's proposal.

aka, breaking a monopoly.

thanks god for Europe.

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1. dmix ◴[05 Sep 25 20:55 UTC] No.45143485[source]▶
The US just won two antitrust trials in a row against Google in the past year. One for Google Ads and the other for Google Search (the chrome one).
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2. idle_zealot ◴[05 Sep 25 21:02 UTC] No.45143572[source]▶
Yeah, and then we decided not to break them up. Discussed yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45120050
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3. dmix ◴[07 Sep 25 15:43 UTC] No.45159181[source]▶
They haven't yet ruled on the much more important Google Ads case