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If you look at adtech there’s really only Google and Facebook so it’d call this very close to a monopoly. This is also not a free service so you are only comparing a small subset of Google services which are mostly built to fuel the ad part (Search and YouTube being the biggest one probably)

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> If you look at adtech there’s really only Google and Facebook so it’d call this very close to a monopoly.

Please look up the definition of monopoly before throwing the word. Earlier part of your own sentence refutes the claim that google has a monopoly in ad. Further numbers: https://adage.com/article/digital/duopoly-loses-share-ad-spe...

I‘m well aware of the textbook definition of a monopoly. Thanks for your concern.

I said „close to a monopoly“ to refer to the big market share of either of them, which is clearly the case as also written in your linked article.

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