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> Google was taking 80% of money that should have gone to them This seems to presuppose an alternate universe in which Google doesn’t exist but ad revenue is t
by pbourke 6y ago
> Google was taking 80% of money that should have gone to them
This seems to presuppose an alternate universe in which Google doesn’t exist but ad revenue is the same?
- jonahbenton 6y agoNo, a universe in which Google exists but wasn't committing fraud as monopolistic mobster middleman, handling both delivery and measurement of delivery. Google did and does what any mobster does- claim the vast majority of the value and let a trickle flow back to the producer, striking deals ordinarily understood to be illegal to maintain their position, while creating reports for producers that conveyed a false view of their role in the middle. Few producers survive with the mob as their distribution.