"Google, on the other hand, argued that the government’s whole view of the market was contrived and not based in reality. Google’s tools help publishers and advertisers make money, and the fact that it has tools in different parts of the market just helps them work well together to consumers’ benefit, they said."
#EmmaRoth, #LaurenFeiner, 2025
https://www.theverge.com/news/650665/google-loses-ad-tech-antitrust-monopoly-lawsuit
To paraphrase Rob Newman, the naiveté required to believe that, is seldom found outside of 1970s porn movies.
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