Apple hit with $162 million French antitrust fine over privacy tool
Apple hit with $162 million French antitrust fine over privacy tool
reuters.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27609585
Apple hit with $162 million French antitrust fine over privacy tool
reuters.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27609585
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Reading the article, France is fining Apple because the tool makes it harder for advertisers to track people and that’s unfair to smaller advertising companies because they really need to track people to compete?
Tearing down monopolies is an inherent good independent of the fact that the entire industry should be torn down with them. Be happy the court is willing to exercise their power to break monopolies at all. Doing so here normalizes doing it elsewhere
Slazers' point that is is pocket change to apple however is an excellent point. If it forces compliance then it's still a win. We'll see what happens