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A comment on US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Support of Plaintiffs [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Supp... by Workaccount2 on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:54PM (#43950931)
The problem is that it is ingrained in people that these services are free, and the only way they are free is by having them feed a centralized ad network.
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Re:US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Supp... by lolinder on Saturday May 10, 2025 @11:53PM (#43951215)
It's about time that people get used to the idea that you have to pay for some of these things.

In aggregate it won't even hurt to transition to that: consumers are, in aggregate, already paying for these things in the form of increased spending on unrelated products they were sold by the ads and increased prices on goods (because their suppliers pay Google monopolistic prices for ads).

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Re:US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Supp... by HWR_14 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @01:30AM (#43951652)
There is no reason that the ad network needs to be centralized. Thats more convenient, but not required.
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