Posted on 01/14/2022 12:04:29 PM PST by janetjanet998
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and his counterpart at Google, CEO Sundar Pichai, secretly struck a deal in 2018 to carve up the digital advertising market between the two tech giants, according to newly revealed allegations from top state law-enforcement officials. Previously, it was reported that the deal was signed by Zuckerberg’s No. 2, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who moved over to the social network after a stint heading up Google’s online ad sales team, according to the allegations in a lawsuit by a group of state attorneys general. But according to newly unredacted court filings, Zuckerberg and Pichai also signed off on the backroom deal in 2018, which allegedly guaranteed Meta subsidiary Facebook would both bid in — and win — a fixed percentage of ad auctions, according to court papers.
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https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6366577?hl=en
https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2472712
The facebook and google universes are pretty independent from what I understand.
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If true, they are both begging to be broken up for anti-trust reasons.
Duck Go Go is a capable search engine.
Most ads can be blocked with uBlock Origin.
My question is this: Are they skewing reports on Google Analytics to favor their platforms?
Big time ad buyers noticed the predicted sales were not happening so after investigating they found google was placing ads in ad farms that saw little traffic and sales.
When confronted, google execs would only offer a discount on the next ad buy.
Youtube which is owned by google regularly removes subscribers and views so they can reduce payments to the creators of the content.
How did they carve up the government contracts to keep track of citizens and the citizen information?
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