I've been reading them continuously for years. The EU's position on shopping sites has never made any kind of sense to me and came across strongly as a pretext.

I've been reading them continuously for years. The EU's position on shopping sites has never made any kind of sense to me and came across strongly as a pretext. In particular, if I recall correctly, the sites that complained to the EU and started this whole process turned out to be quasi-front companies of various kinds that had never made a real attempt to compete at all. But this is really all part of a pattern. The EU's cases and laws against tech are always based on super weak rationales. I'm long since past the point of seeing this as a simple form of extraction-ism, and I'm European and live in Europe.