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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: 0s | source
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Xenoamorphous ◴[05 Sep 25 20:50 UTC] No.45143432[source]▶
It’s amusing to see how HN, notoriously pro-privacy and anti-ads seemingly dislikes this kind of news.
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mbroncano ◴[05 Sep 25 22:24 UTC] No.45144361[source]▶
It also traditionally heavily anti Europe, for reasons
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nemo44x[dead post] ◴[05 Sep 25 23:40 UTC] No.45145010[source]▶
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hollerith ◴[05 Sep 25 23:42 UTC] No.45145023[source]▶
I've been assuming that most of the anti-American comments here were probably written by Americans, but I don't really know.
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1. lazide ◴[06 Sep 25 00:10 UTC] No.45145205[source]▶
That’s my take as well. Europeans (in my experience) tend to be less, ahem, ignorantly optimistic, of how well it would go.