We take issue with Google favouring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of competitors.

So we have sent a Statement of Objections.

Our preliminarily finds that Google is favouring:

➽ its own ad exchange AdX in the ad selection auction run by its dominant publisher ad server DFP
➽ its ad exchange AdX in the way its ad buying tools Ads and DV360 place bids on ad exchanges

Our Statement of Objections does not prejudge the outcome of an investigation.

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Adrian Morales

@EU_Commission I don't care about Google, either, so I use a search engine called DuckDuckGo in conjunction with Adblock to surf the net like it's 1999. 😅👌

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Mikka

@EU_Commission Solution: compete with Google. Provide their services, including a better Ad solution, on a platform complete and replete with the value add Google provides. Soon you will have the customers and visitors Google commands. Then run your ads on that platform.

The way this reads is anti-Google and, as a dogwhistle, anti-American posturing.

EVERY person on the Internet has a choice to use or not use Google, Facebook, Instagram, their Fediverse instance, and so on. EVERY person on the Internet has a choice to block ads. If I happen to have been the first supermarket in the city, took the beatings, took the L, innovated, watched others grow on my innovations and in my safe wake, and then the neighborhood association over in a different part of town, pissed that I have the first mover advantage, wants me to put advertisements for my competitors in my windows... know what I'd do? I'd stop selling to them.

If Google has a brain, they'll just null-route Europe for a week. They're a business, no one can force them to do business with anyone. No more YouTube, no more Google Search, no more Android, no more Mail... good luck building infrastructures that can replace that.

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