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> Google also provided Facebook with a [...]. Google subjects other marketplaces competing for publishers’ inventory in Open Bidding to 160 millisecond timeouts
by stefan_ 6y ago
> Google also provided Facebook with a [...]. Google subjects
other marketplaces competing for publishers’ inventory in Open Bidding to 160 millisecond timeouts. Competitors have actively complained that is not enough time to recognize users in auctions and return bids before they are excluded. By comparison, Google [...]. The longer timeouts granted by Google were presumably designed to aid FAN win more auctions to abide by the spirit of the agreement.
Not sure why these were redacted but it seems pretty clear what happened. Is Google actually running the monopoly marketplace and tilting the scales in its own favor? That seems like a knockout right there.
- sanxiyn 6y agoNote: quote above is paragraph 186. Google started by giving Facebook longer timeout, but they went further. Paragraph 194 says: > The agreement allocated a portion of publishers' auction wins to Facebook, subverting the free operation of supply and demand. Now wins are simply allocated to Facebook without competition.
- engineeringwoke 6y agoAs said above, this is damning, KO, whatever you want to say.
- engineeringwoke 6y agoThis seems 100% damning to me. There will probably be an entire HN thread about it in the next couple hours.