U.S. seeks breakup of Google's ad-tech products after judge finds illegal monopoly

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  On the one hand: Good. Google is a monopoly and they suck, too.

  On the other, I don’t trust the trump administration to do anything correctly. They’ll probably try to give google to Musk or something.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Isn’t it frustrating to know the difference between right and wrong, then seeing wrong get punished, but instead of right prevailing, it is instead just more wrong?

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Every time i see this waft up all i can think is “google failed to pay their bribes”

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Google admitted at least internally that they were going to be actively political against Republicans and trump after he won in 2016. That still hasn’t changed.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’d be something though… Can you imagine watching one of the largest companies in the world being run into the ground in under two years? I’d pay to watch that

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s not fun from the inside (not Google).

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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Uh oh, sounds like someone didn’t go up Drumps ass far enough.

  Ah well, I’ll take the wins where I can get them lol

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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Obscenely large donation incoming in 5… 4…

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They don’t even need to donate.

      He’s openly selling access to the while house through his crypto scheme. They’re not even pretending to run it through a campaign.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Don’t worry, cheque’s in the mail.

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• ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  • G - Google
  • A - Apple
  • F - Facebook
  • A - Amazon
  • M - Microsoft

  5 companies, each own a portion of the internet like it’s the stock market.

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  • muusemuuse@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    the FAANG is real

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It was FAANG long ago, it’s MANGA now, except even that ignores the fact that Google has Alphabet for a while now. MANAA?

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I wonder what will happen to Firefox.

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  • commander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m hoping they can figure out how to operate leaner and without Google money. People get mad about them but they’re the best alternative we have and they do more good than any bad policy. At worst keep supporting Firefox while using a mild fork like Waterfox since the core of development is with Mozilla

    They probably shouldn’t base out of the US and everything Proton does as a business should have been Mozilla if they actually had better long term vision

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Mozilla stubbornly refuses to allow people to donate to Firefox specifically (as opposed to Firefox and their other random projects they pull out of the hat every other quarter or so to be used for any of them at their discretion). I would have set up a monthly donation to Firefox long ago if only they allowed donations just to Firefox. I have read many others complain about the same issue over the years.

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    • FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The organization needs to dump it’s management and go back to it’s roots. Stop being shitty and be the desktop people want.

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• assembly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I wonder what happens to Google without the advertising monopoly. They kill off everything else they build so realistically they are just an ad company at this point which offers a declining search engine. While they won’t be dethroned anytime soon in search, they keep making it worse so I have to imagine it won’t be gaining users. If they did break it out, maybe that will improve search.

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Google launched their ad stuff in 2000. They’ve been an advertising company since 2000.

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    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Once upon a time they were the “good ads”. They had an unobtrusive but instantly recognisable ad-format that was reasonably tolerable and text-only. It was once they started showing sponsored search results that it became apparent they were willing to be subversive to get clicks.

      Their whole image was built around user trust and the moment they had everyone hooked they 180ed.

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  • Clanket@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If I was Google I would be hugely worried about ChatGPT. I’ve started using it to search for info over mainly DuckDuckGo but also Google.

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    • muusemuuse@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      google isnt worried about shit. They are teh default and the user is a lazy POS so the existence of a better service isnt a factor for them.

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