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Re:Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image ... by ravenstine on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:46AM (#23325023)
> I hope they get smacked down for it in the upcoming anti-trust lawsuit.

People have been saying this for years, and it never happens.

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Re:Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image ... by sgift on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:58AM (#23325212)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google - Things take time, but Google did get fined in the past and there's a good chance they get fined again (and forced to change things).
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Re:Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image ... by reaperducer on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:24PM (#23327608)
Fined ≠ "smacked." To Google, EU fines are just a cost of doing business. Like FedEx eating parking tickets.

Until Google is fined to a degree that it impacts its share price, nothing will change.

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Re:Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image ... by AnssiH on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @06:54PM (#23331156)
All of the 3 big antitrust cases with fines the parent linked to resulted in Google changing their practices.

So IMHO "nothing will change" does not seem right.

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Re:Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image ... by reaperducer on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:05PM (#23338880)
If Google had truly changed, this topic wouldn't come up over and over again.
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Re:Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image ... by glenstein on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @06:14PM (#23330761)
My concern is they lose the ability to counterbalance the other four of the Big Five, if they are uniquely targeted by an anti-trust lawsuit.

Which is to say, I don't disagree with the momentum toward anti-trust measures being brought against Google, but I want them systematically brought against the entire Big Five, or else the effects may just be further consolidation.

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