Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules

Post by CPLX » Fri, Apr 18, 2025, 4:06 AM UTC

kaashif wrote: post #384

CPLX wrote: post #132

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> Look at the hundreds of millions wasted on the Windows / IE monopoly trial The fact that we actually were enforcing antitrust at the time absolutely prevented MS from getting a strangehold on the consumer internet as it was taking off. It's the reason you're posting on this forum in the first place, as it was essential to the success of tech startups in the first dot-com era. Then we stopped enforcing antitrust law…

If breaking Google up would be good for Google shareholders, surely the shareholders would have made it happen already, right? Unless the argument is that shareholders don't know what's good for them.

Post by CPLX » Fri, Apr 18, 2025, 4:08 AM UTC

carlosjobim wrote: post #265

CPLX wrote: post #126

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The reason monopolies are illegal is precisely because they force people to be completely dependent on a third party. Is a farmer "a failure who shouldn't have a business" if some asshole buys up every single railroad, port, and truck in the country he lives in?

No, but if he makes himself for example completely dependent on Monsanto, he shouldn't have a business, because he's in practice an employee with all the financial responsibilities of a business and none of the benefits of having a business. And none of the benefits of being an employee either. If your business model is to make yourself completely dependent on a single third party, then you shouldn't have a business.

Post by zombiwoof » Fri, Apr 18, 2025, 4:24 AM UTC

whiplash451 wrote: post #166

aiauthoritydev wrote: post #155

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As someone who has worked in AdTech I would respectfully disagree. It is indeed complex but it is incredibly efficient. Also it is irrelevant of whether publisher earns 75% or 30% of the total revenue. What matters is how much they are earning compared to the next best alternative. Some companies like Google are incredible at this. Google is not a "monopoly" in this space. In fact the world has far too many Google eq…

> the world has far too many Google equivalents No it doesn't. As explained by the parent, Google is in a unique position w.r.t to the publishers, the sellers and the bidders. There's a ton of very talented adtech companies out there, but they only get to play an unfair game.

Post by tempodox » Fri, Apr 18, 2025, 4:47 AM UTC

Post by xvector » Fri, Apr 18, 2025, 5:04 AM UTC

upmind wrote: post #398

Not to say Google is in the right but Google seems to be pitted against the entire industry constantly.