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All that’s redacted in the Texas lawsuit against Google

14 points by apress 6y ago

p49k 6y ago
The article has a somewhat misleading clickbaity title and is behind a paywall. This is the list of what is redacted: > Google's percentage share of the digital ad market > Number of ads Google's ad servers process per day > The cut of every ad sale Google collects > Something a Google exec "frankly conceded" about the design of Google's ad exchange > The true design goal of Google's ad tool for small web sites > Google's commission rate on ads from small advertisers > The percent of time customers using Google's ad tools spend buying or selling ads from Google's ad exchange > Something Google said to the FTC in 2008 about its ad server > Google's estimate of the percent of online publishers using its ad server > Google's description of publishers' difficulties in switching to rival ad servers > The name of the team within Google's New York office that designed a program called RPO to make ad bidding less competitive > The name of one of Google's bid rigging programs > A screenshot of said bid rigging program > Something Google employees discussed at an October 13, 2016 meeting > The code name of a program Google developed to compete with a publisher-developed technique called header bidding > A Google slide deck about the pain caused by Facebook's support of header bidding > An October 5, 2016 internal presentation to senior Google execs about Facebook and header bidding > Something Facebook VP Dan Rose told Mark Zuckerberg in an email about Google and header bidding > Details of an agreement Facebook and Google struck in 2018 allegedly to undercut header bidding > The Star Wars character Google used as an internal code name for the agreement > A word that appears 20 times in that agreement > The way Google's mobile format, AMP, actually hurts publishers > Google's strategy in withholding YouTube ad inventory from competing ad tools > Google's name for a restricted access data set that combines information from its search ads, YouTube ads, and display ads > Google's name for its scheme to arbitrage ad pricing > The name of Google's future project to turn the entire web into a walled garden it controls > A summary document of the walled garden plan
kwhitefoot 6y ago
How can a lawsuit have censored content? Surely "Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.", and if one cannot see the documents then how can one see that the deliberations and decision make sense?

14 points by apress 6y ago

p49k 6y ago

The article has a somewhat misleading clickbaity title and is behind a paywall. This is the list of what is redacted: > Google's percentage share of the digital ad market > Number of ads Google's ad servers process per day > The cut of every ad sale Google collects > Something a Google exec "frankly conceded" about the design of Google's ad exchange > The true design goal of Google's ad tool for small web sites > Google's commission rate on ads from small advertisers > The percent of time customers using Google's ad tools spend buying or selling ads from Google's ad exchange > Something Google said to the FTC in 2008 about its ad server > Google's estimate of the percent of online publishers using its ad server > Google's description of publishers' difficulties in switching to rival ad servers > The name of the team within Google's New York office that designed a program called RPO to make ad bidding less competitive > The name of one of Google's bid rigging programs > A screenshot of said bid rigging program > Something Google employees discussed at an October 13, 2016 meeting > The code name of a program Google developed to compete with a publisher-developed technique called header bidding > A Google slide deck about the pain caused by Facebook's support of header bidding > An October 5, 2016 internal presentation to senior Google execs about Facebook and header bidding > Something Facebook VP Dan Rose told Mark Zuckerberg in an email about Google and header bidding > Details of an agreement Facebook and Google struck in 2018 allegedly to undercut header bidding > The Star Wars character Google used as an internal code name for the agreement > A word that appears 20 times in that agreement > The way Google's mobile format, AMP, actually hurts publishers > Google's strategy in withholding YouTube ad inventory from competing ad tools > Google's name for a restricted access data set that combines information from its search ads, YouTube ads, and display ads > Google's name for its scheme to arbitrage ad pricing > The name of Google's future project to turn the entire web into a walled garden it controls > A summary document of the walled garden plan

kwhitefoot 6y ago

How can a lawsuit have censored content? Surely "Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.", and if one cannot see the documents then how can one see that the deliberations and decision make sense?