Posted on 11/01/2021 7:10:57 PM PDT by algore
Ten days ago, a New York judge revealed the full prosecution filings in a multi-state antitrust lawsuit against Google – one of many against the company, and of many more against the ad tech giants.
There's too much to digest in a handful of days, and early headlines have concentrated on the claims that Google and Facebook colluded in a cabal to deflect legislation, bypass privacy technology, and share the spoils. There are lots of specific allegations about other misdeeds; this is just the hors d'oeuvre.
Are these just allegations concocted by whistleblowers, and competitors tired of losing in a fair fight? The court will decide, but there is no shortage of claims that match real-world experience.
Take AMP, a protocol that Google promoted as a way to speed up mobile content delivery and improve user experience. Free to use for everyone, it required some JS code from Google and a few rules to follow; in return you got a free CDN optimised for your mobile content. As a bonus, because your content was faster and Google prioritises speed, AMP content got pushed up the search rankings.
Look at the press around the launch of AMP in the mid 2010s, and that's the message you'll get. Most caveats were about the extra work for developers in following the rules.
Skip forward a year or so and people had noticed that AMP wasn't actually faster, and that by effectively hosting all third-party content within google.com it was short-circuiting the internet. And the court filing has claimed that AMP's primary purpose was indeed to create huge amounts of data for Google's internal use, while denying that data to other services. If true: insider trading, consumer capture, and competitor freeze-out.
Some of our own experiences back that claim. Developers, CIOs, advertisers, content providers felt they were had. Some of the press felt they were had. How much should any of us trust Google now when it claims innocence?
Looking through the lawsuit, the scope and shamelessness of Google's greed would appear to be stark. Project Bernanke, for example, is claimed to take data from publishers' ad servers to boost Google's own services. Project NERA, to create a "not owned but operated" walled garden for users if they used any Google service.
"Project Jedi" was allegedly meant to freeze out independent ad exchanges by using insider knowledge, and in "Jedi Blue", Google is alleged to have conspired with Facebook to parcel out the goodies between themselves.
Duplicate:Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete: Time for the end game
Posted on 11/1/2021, 1:50:04 PM by ShadowAce
I am not the only person here who reads the register, who knew.
My bad
All part America’s anti-constitution period.
And that does not even touch on its ideological censorship. See post
So like AOL where everything was in their world. Google redirecting traffic thru theirs. Facebook, twitter, android, apple etc. working with many sites to track everyone.
Google was caught by big advertisers of dumping their ads in ad farms where no one was likely to see them. Google’s response was not to give back the stolen money but to give the advertisers a discount in the future ad buys. They also as we know block your content at Youtube on a whim but they also will remove subscribers so they do not have to pay the content providers more money. Google itself makes more from those that put ads in the videos.
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Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple are party loyalists and have been sifting all the data being collected on you to create your social score.
The addition of your banking transactions would just make this easier for them to determine if you can get a job, where you can buy a house and if you should be allowed to purchase a firearm......oh, yes they will fill this will a psychological profile to determine if you are a threat to society.
Of course, the only “threats” will be anyone who does not support the Politburo. Real threats that do mass shootings will be unaffected because the intention of this is to cement their political power forever.
The current “framework” legislation being discussed has been created without details so the Deep State can fill in the blanks and have unlimited spending and regulatory power. If they get that, it is over.
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