EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services
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#2For reference, that's 0.25% of Alphabet's revenue last year.
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wathefuk r you talking bout
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#5The EU has found a clever way to charge US tech companies for market access without triggering a WTO violation.
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#6The EU has found a clever way to charge US tech companies for market access without triggering a WTO violation.
What's the alternative -- let US companies continue with their anti-competitive practices?
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#7The EU has found a clever way to charge US tech companies for market access without triggering a WTO violation.
I m not sure about that. It raises the cost of doing business, but US tech giants still get to dominate the EU tech landscape.
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wathefuk r you talking bout
Probably referring to how quite a few e-ID and online banking sites require you to use Chrome or Safari, as the companies behind them don't test with eg. Firefox.
The Danish "MitID", for example, doesn't quite work right with how a lot of apps using it for authentication (the default Firefox settings probably strip something from the intent links the MitID login page uses) and Danish citizen service sites require Chrome for some things such as booking an appointment, iirc.
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#9The EU has found a clever way to charge US tech companies for market access without triggering a WTO violation.
Its a reverse uno after decades of fines by the US against European banks and car makers.
They will just write it off against the tax they pay back in the US anyway (which is why the US doesnt like it).
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#10It drives me insane when in Europe the link between Google Search and Google Maps is broken and I often have to copy paste an address between the two. Thanks EU, what if I like Google's integrations?