BREAKING: Federal court rules that Google illegally maintained a monopoly on online advertising technology. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/t... - ThreadSky

moreperfectunion.bsky.social • 64 days ago

BREAKING: Federal court rules that Google illegally maintained a monopoly on online advertising technology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/technology/google-ad-tech-antitrust-ruling.html

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gojiwave.bsky.social•64 days ago

I don't care who wins, I just Google to lose

leftwardup.bsky.social•63 days ago

THIS!!!!!!

mariafe76.bsky.social•64 days ago

I’m only using Vivaldi instead of Google!

stephvalley.bsky.social•64 days ago

like Wite-Out, Band-Aid, and Velcro, Google shifted from noun to verb long ago. but intemperate control of content, cataclysmic algorithmic changes, and sloppy-at-best AI implementation have made the damn thing unreliable and, at times, unusable

katiekatz.bsky.social•64 days ago

webkris.bsky.social•64 days ago

Ah yes, the impeachment phase. Where we take a victory lap but exactly nothing changes. Wake me up when Google is ordered to split off Chrome and it's for real and not tied up in appeals for 6 years.

chudonew.bsky.social•64 days ago

Good!

lindayoung164.bsky.social•64 days ago

FINALLY!! It's far more than this, but glad they are breaking that monopoly. META is next. Then comes Amazon.

headlessdogman.bsky.social•64 days ago

I guess it's turns out google did, in fact, be evil

judemckenna.bsky.social•64 days ago

They’ll play their Trump card and just ignore the courts. Apparently you can do that if you have enough money.

katakateri.bsky.social•64 days ago

curiouslyclever.bsky.social•63 days ago

There was a time when there were laws in place to *prevent* monopolies from existing in the first place.

moreperfectunion.bsky.social•64 days ago

U.S. District Court judge Leonie Brinkema just ruled that Google had broken the law to build its dominance over the largely invisible system of technology that places ads across the web.

moreperfectunion.bsky.social•64 days ago

In a separate case also brought by the DOJ, Judge Amit Mehta ruled last summer that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/5/24155520/judge-rules-on-us-doj-v-google-antitrust-search-suit