Sì, Bruxelles vuole davvero che Google venga smembrata

Based, these companies are too big not to be a threat to liberal democracy, Europe and humanity itself 

✨ Manifesting The Brussels Effect ✨

> “There’s nothing anticompetitive in providing services for ad buyers and sellers, and there are more alternatives to our services than ever before,” Lee-Anne Mulholland, its vice president and global head of regulatory affairs, [wrote in a blog post](https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/todays-european-commission-announcement-about-our-advertising-technology/) in September.

What a load of, frankly, nonsense. There is no competitor coming even close to YouTube, there is no relevant player in the mobile phone OS sector other than Apple (who command a higher price range, so effectively *everything* lower than premium class is using Android and with the exception of Huawei and bottom-of-the-barrel crap everyone pays Google a hefty license fee for Play Services), their Play Store is utterly dominant on Android (and given the bans coming down on rooting and sideloading, it’s only going to get worse), Google’s search engine has only one threat and that is ChatGPT.

As for the “lesser” dominant services, Maps has a decent market share as well with ~70-80%, and AdWords with ~40% market share is still the biggest fish by far when it comes to online ads.

Google routinely goes into new markets with their seemingly endless financial firehose, no one can compete with them any more.