> How breaking up #Google could lower your online shopping bill

More competitors would enter the market, leading to lower #ad prices due to competitive pressure. This could reduce the "#GoogleTax" on #ads, potentially lowering costs for #advertisers. Without a monopoly, publishers and #advertisers might pay lower fees to use ad services, as no single entity would dominate and dictate high prices.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/breaking-up-google-could-make-online-ads-less-terrible/

#monopoly #antitrust #breakupbigtech

The link tax’s failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the copyright industry

It seems so long ago that people were trying to stop the worst aspects of the EU Copyright Directive. It was quite a battle, as Chapter 6 of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) recounts in detail. The final legislation was passed in March 2019, but it is important not simply to accept what happened and move on. The copyright industry used many […]

#article15 #copybuzz #euCopyrightDirective #genai #generativeAi #germany #googleTax #journalists #linkTax #lobbyists #newspapers #publishers

https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/

New research shows that the 2023 Canadian link tax has already failed – just like all the others

At the heart of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) lies the sorry tale of the EU Copyright Directive. Its stated aim appeared reasonable enough: to update EU copyright law for the digital age. But unprecedented lobbying by the copyright industry saw it become yet another failure to understand the online world, and yet another example of laws […]

#canada #eu #euCopyrightDirective #facebook #google #googleTax #instagram #linkTax #links #onlineNewsAct #screenshots

https://walledculture.org/new-research-shows-that-the-2023-canadian-link-tax-has-already-failed-just-like-all-the-others/

@JayVii_de @[email protected] if you don't notice captchas it probably means you are logged in to Google on the same browser.

If you are not, they are EVERYWHERE.

I call it the #googleTax: "if you won't feed us with your data you'll work for us"