cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/22463369
Ad tech monopoly trial may hurt Google more than DOJ’s search case, experts say.
“With the cost of ads going down and the number of ads sold going up, the market is working,” Google’s blog said. “The DOJ’s case risks inefficiencies and higher prices—the last thing that America’s economy or our small businesses need right now.”
So uh. Google. We need to talk. None of us likes this. Nobody likes this. We don’t want cheaper and more ads. We don’t like ads. We especially don’t like your firehose force-feeding of ads to us. Your argument here is “it’s good because it helps us make money”. We do not care that it’s your business model, because your business model is objectively annoying and harmful to society.
I swear, the rich are truly buying their own bullshit at this point. They seem to genuinely think that the peasants enjoy being fucked as hard as absolutely possible. They have made these arguments repeatedly about many horrible practices they do.
Finance leaders try to claim that frontrunning users purchases and banking the difference, is somehow beneficial to the customer.
They are all fucking deranged.
Break up the company already… Make them separate entities and introduce provisions to prevent them merging for a decade or more.
Good
Honestly Google isn’t the worst one. They do have alternatives
It feels weird to start blowing money on broad lawsuits. If you want to prosecute a particular action or decision go for it but “big tech bad” is not terribly productive. It very much feels like a political move more than a economic move.
