Google hit with record EU fine over Shopping service

[Magrat Garlick]

Google hit with record EU fine over Shopping service - BBC News

o_O That's a gutsy move.

 

[GIMH]

Bleuuuuuuuuuuuuurggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Daemon]

Agree with the need for such a move, but it doesn't sit well with me that the largest advertising platform ever can't even flog their own ****.

 

[sledger]

Agree with the need for such a move, but it doesn't sit well with me that the largest advertising platform ever can't even flog their own ****.

Haha isn't what you've said in the second half of this sentence totally contradictory to what is said in the first?

 

[Spikey]

time for Daemon to be hit with a fine

 

[Daemon]

Haha isn't what you've said in the second half of this sentence totally contradictory to what is said in the first?

I didn't intend it to be that way - I basically support the move, but I don't..like it.

It's sort of like paying taxes. I understand and support the concept, but I'd hate actually paying them.

 

[vcs]

I can't say I've ever noticed these ads TBH.

 

[zorax]

can we just let google run the world already

feels like we're delaying the inevitable

 

[Magrat Garlick]

can we just let google run the world already

feels like we're delaying the inevitable

Globalism, by Alphabet Inc.

 

[Shri]

Google is an overrated company in terms of what they can do. They couldn't even beat the telecom companies with their Google Fibre idea and are now teaming up with SpaceX to provide cheap high speed internet through low orbit satellites.

 

[vcs]

If Google are overrated, other software companies are even more shite.

They're a big bad giant now these days, and control a big portion of our lives, and hence need to be kept in check, but it could be worse.. imagine if Microsoft was in that position.

 

[Daemon]

Well they did get fined for the same thing essentially wrt Windows and IE didn't they?

 

[Spark]

Well they did get fined for the same thing essentially wrt Windows and IE didn't they?

Yeah indeed. And Microsoft these days is a much better company than Google and especially Apple IMO.

 

[vcs]

Yeah indeed. And Microsoft these days is a much better company than Google and especially Apple IMO.

Why do you say so?

 

[Spark]

Decent products, more reasonable prices, less cartoon-villain stuff and gargantuan quasi-state intrusions of privacy/social control, and much better in actually letting you use their products however you want rather than locking most of it away from you.

 

[Daemon]

Apple are wankers. I love so many things about the iPhone and Macbooks but the compatibility issues (especially with external HDDs), general iCloud crapness (have to download pictures one by one ffs), fixed storage and microSD incompatibility, iTunes syncing rubbish, lack of dragging and dropping, ridiculously expensive repairs, etc is all just a massive pain.

The fact that it's all purposely done makes me hate them even more.

oh and foxconn ofc but you know who cares about humane working conditions