Cory Doctorow on Nostr: This current in competition law is still on the fringe, but the Google case - which ...
This current in competition law is still on the fringe, but the Google case - which finds the company illegally dominating surveillance advertising, but rejects the idea that surveillance is itself a harm - offers an opportunity for this bad idea to go from the fringe to the center.
If that happens, look out.
Take "attribution," an obscure bit of ad-tech jargon disguising a jaw-droppingly terrible practice.
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