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Because the fine isn't the interesting part of this settlement, this is:

> "Google proposed commitments aimed at improving the interoperability of the Google Ad Manager services with third-party ad server and ad serving platform solutions," the watchdog said.

European fines typically start low, but keep growing if compliance is not established.

Basically, this is threatening but not hurting. Yet

It gives the company the opportunity to comply before being hit by a bigger fine, I suppose.