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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 digita
by 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