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US accuses Google of illegal methods to push up ad prices (www.reuters.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Paywalled! Fuckin Wired.

He also mentioned how they may benefit from having results that aren't quite accurate, as then you spend more time searching, which means more time to serve you ads.

That's an interesting one, give up a bit of user experience for increased ad impressions. Pretty clever, but breaks all kinds of anti-competition laws if true.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find it really ironic that ads and a paywall are being complained about in the same thread

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Different users lol. I think I'm one of the few Lemmy users that doesn't care about ads...