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‘Operation Tulip’ Takes Prosecutors Offline for Google Tax Raid

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Re: ‘Operation Tulip’ Takes Prosecutors Offline for Google Tax Raid

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shitlordism wrote: post #14
Scoundreller wrote: post #13

What plugin should I install on Chrome to block various websites' popups asking me to turn off my adblocker?

uBlock Origin

I'm running uBlock Origin and still getting the notification about adblocker. They seem to be running some sort of detection mechanism.

I was running standard uBlock and didn't realize it. Origin seems to bypass the detection.

Re: ‘Operation Tulip’ Takes Prosecutors Offline for Google Tax Raid

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Post by morgante »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #4
c-slice wrote: post #3

The last paragraph in the article is a real kicker: they're going to have to parse millions of documents to build their case. That's going to take an enormous amount of time and staffing costs. It'll be interesting to see this play out in the courts or if a settlement is reached before trial.

> That's going to take an enormous amount of time and staffing costs. Is it? Can't they scan all of those docs in, OCR them (or process the electronic docs if they're already in that format), and use e-discovery? I hear so often on HN that legal firms no longer need junior associates or paralegals for that work, as the software can do the heavy lifting.

Yes, software can make discovery a lot more efficient.

Apparently they're not willing to pay for it.

> Investigators have “limited” technological means and would need “extremely efficient software” worth about 200,000 euros to speed up their work.

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Post by x0x0 »

knodi123 wrote: post #5

"extremely efficient software worth 200,000 euros?" what could this be referring to?

A guess: they have payment, display, and click logs for adwords + adsense purchased in or targeting France, and want to calculate some sort of revenues...

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Post by clamprecht »

> "It's pretty much a fight between David and Goliath", [the prosecutor] said.

Really? France, a sovereign G8 nation, calling Google Goliath? How are they measuring size? Google's market capitalization is $500 billion, is this more valuable than the country of France?

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