"Google, on the other hand, argued that the government’s whole view of the market was contrived and not based in reality. Google’s tools help publishers and advertisers make money, and the fact that it has tools in different parts of the market just helps them work well together to consumers’ benefit, they said."

#EmmaRoth, #LaurenFeiner, 2025

https://www.theverge.com/news/650665/google-loses-ad-tech-antitrust-monopoly-lawsuit

To paraphrase Rob Newman, the naiveté required to believe that, is seldom found outside of 1970s porn movies.

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#Google

Google loses ad tech monopoly case

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"But using the feature comes with fees so steep that it’s hard to imagine any developer using it. Once a developer adds external links, Apple places a new “store services fee” on the sale of digital goods and services that occur within one year of the date the user installs the app — on any platform, even if the user never actually clicks the external link."

#EmmaRoth, 2024

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/9/24216181/apple-eu-app-store-services-fee-external-links

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#Apple #AntiTrust #GateKeeping #DigitalTollBooths #DigitalRights

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