Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook

Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by hardtke on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:59AM (#28879209)

The monopoly is not on the consumer side, it is on the advertising side. Google and Facebook are the only companies that have access to data on basically every sale on the internet (almost every site that uses their ad tools reports back their sales). This data gives them a defensible duopoly on digital advertising.

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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by spaced-out on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:05PM (#28879294)

> Google and Facebook are the only companies that have access to data on basically every sale on the internet

Amazon? eBay? WeChat?

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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by hardtke on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:24PM (#28879547)

Sites report their data back to Google analytics and Facebook by implementing their pixels. People don't do this for Amazon, ebay, wechat.

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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by sanderjd on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:37PM (#28880522)

Amazon actually does have a quickly growing ads business FWIW.

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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by sanderjd on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:36PM (#28880502)

This argument makes way more sense, but it is also not well handled by existing anti-trust law and a much better response would be new regulation.

Edit: It also doesn't speak to any of the issues with Amazon. (Also interestingly, Amazon's own advertising business is increasingly making this a tri-opoly.)

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