UK's competition regulator is investigating Google's browser changes
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LOL, ###### OFF UK! And I live here... what a ###### this country has became...
LOL, ###### OFF UK! And I live here... what a ###### this country has became...
What’s your problem?
Seems to make perfect sense to me. Google being Google. I’m glad they are under scrutiny
LOL, ###### OFF UK! And I live here... what a ###### this country has became...
What’s your problem?
Seems to make perfect sense to me. Google being Google. I’m glad they are under scrutiny
You do realise this makes things better for advertisers and screws users over? "The investigation has been started after receiving complaints from Marketers for an Open Web Limited, a coalition of publishing and technology firms alleging that Google is "abusing its dominant position" through the proposals" yes, google is preventing spying by third parties, of course it benefits their excluded system, but at the same time, less adverts/spying is less adverts/spying which is better.
LOL, ###### OFF UK! And I live here... what a ###### this country has became...
What’s your problem?
Seems to make perfect sense to me. Google being Google. I’m glad they are under scrutiny
You do realise this makes things better for advertisers and screws users over? "The investigation has been started after receiving complaints from Marketers for an Open Web Limited, a coalition of publishing and technology firms alleging that Google is "abusing its dominant position" through the proposals" yes, google is preventing spying by third parties, of course it benefits their excluded system, but at the same time, less adverts/spying is less adverts/spying which is better.
Haha!
"Good Guy Google" protects the users by pushing out other advertisers to become the one true advertising company of all!
No. Holding advertising companies to account is a much better plan.
LOL, ###### OFF UK! And I live here... what a ###### this country has became...
What’s your problem?
Seems to make perfect sense to me. Google being Google. I’m glad they are under scrutiny
You do realise this makes things better for advertisers and screws users over? "The investigation has been started after receiving complaints from Marketers for an Open Web Limited, a coalition of publishing and technology firms alleging that Google is "abusing its dominant position" through the proposals" yes, google is preventing spying by third parties, of course it benefits their excluded system, but at the same time, less adverts/spying is less adverts/spying which is better.
Yes, but it also hands all advertising to Google.
So the advertising and consumer impact remain the same, EXCEPT, Google makes ALL THE MONEY. This is where it is problematic.
If you really want to fight predatory advertising, look into other solutions proposed by Microsoft and other companies that do not take control of advertising and instead restrict malicious and over aggressive use for everyone.
Google is not the answer, especially when they are not trying to help consumers, but instead impact non-Google advertising on the web.
Google is a ###### company that continues to do ###### stuff.
The UK at least has some consumer interest here, even if it is partially spurred on by other web advertisers to get their attention.
Ideally, there should be better and more aggressive technology bodies in place to monitor and keep this crap from happening by Google along with having limits on all advertisers and strict policies about user data and privacy.
However, until people start voting for people and policies that aren't afraid of necessary education and regulation, this is the ###### right wing idiocracy we get.
(And sadly, it really is now this cut and dry with very few Tories or Republican members standing up for consumers or needed technology legislation, and until they do, anyone in the tech community that cares about privacy or the future, needs to stop voting for them until they regain the courage to vote for what is needed, even if bubba won't vote for them.)
LOL, ###### OFF UK! And I live here... what a ###### this country has became...
What’s your problem?
Seems to make perfect sense to me. Google being Google. I’m glad they are under scrutiny
You do realise this makes things better for advertisers and screws users over? "The investigation has been started after receiving complaints from Marketers for an Open Web Limited, a coalition of publishing and technology firms alleging that Google is "abusing its dominant position" through the proposals" yes, google is preventing spying by third parties, of course it benefits their excluded system, but at the same time, less adverts/spying is less adverts/spying which is better.
Haha!
"Good Guy Google" protects the users by pushing out other advertisers to become the one true advertising company of all!
No. Holding advertising companies to account is a much better plan.
Yes, holding all advertising companies to account, not just the ones they pick and choose. The outcome of this should be that google is included in the block, not that the block is deemed illegal or anti-competitive, agreed on that point.
LOL, ###### OFF UK! And I live here... what a ###### this country has became...
What’s your problem?
Seems to make perfect sense to me. Google being Google. I’m glad they are under scrutiny
You do realise this makes things better for advertisers and screws users over? "The investigation has been started after receiving complaints from Marketers for an Open Web Limited, a coalition of publishing and technology firms alleging that Google is "abusing its dominant position" through the proposals" yes, google is preventing spying by third parties, of course it benefits their excluded system, but at the same time, less adverts/spying is less adverts/spying which is better.
Haha!
"Good Guy Google" protects the users by pushing out other advertisers to become the one true advertising company of all!
No. Holding advertising companies to account is a much better plan.
Yes, holding all advertising companies to account, not just the ones they pick and choose. The outcome of this should be that google is included in the block, not that the block is deemed illegal or anti-competitive, agreed on that point.
The outcome is that they picked and chose Google in this instance because Google appear to be about to abuse their dominant position.
I think that if another advertiser had been in Google's position right now then they would have had the same treatment.
Not like anyone is forced to use the Chrome Browser anyway. I use FF myself and rarely touch Chrome.
Not like anyone is forced to use the Chrome Browser anyway. I use FF myself and rarely touch Chrome.
I may be wrong, but from my understanding it won't matter what browser you use, as it will essentially shape the way ALL web advertising is done. If Google get their way, it will effectively shut out other web advertisers, not initially, but over time as they lose the ability to target advertisements to individuals who do use Chrome, which is a lot.
So people wanting to get an ad out there will see Google as the best option, as it looks like Google will not be affected by these changes in a way. In the end, all the other ad serving companies will no longer have a viable business as their product will not be able to target ads, while Google will. Then they will fail.
This will affect all browsers.
The only question that matters, "is Google itself able to advertise within this sandbox"? If the answer is no.. Then this isn't an abuse of power!
For those of you who wish to learn more about 3rd party cookies, read this: https://twitter.com/v0max/status/1199817699116736512?lang=en I learned quite a few new things - especially cookie syncing.
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