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> There are a lot of people bothered by this, so this data discovery could prove very expensive for Google.

Apparently none of the right people are sufficiently bothered, because it’s been this way for a decade and we’ve seen no real resolution to date.

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I don't know if we'll see a "real resolution" or not, but Google is currently unpopular with the GOP and this story might have the power to sour many Dems on Google. A bipartisan push for antitrust measures would be very dangerous for Google.

Even if we don't see an effective clipping of Google's wings in Congress, the court case was already likely to be expensive just on the basis of the cartel with Facebook the Texas lawsuit has already showed. Recall that the EU fined Google €1.49 billion for restrictive contracts with AdSense. - https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/20/tech/google-eu-antitrust/...

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