By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026The major advantage of AI search summaries is in shielding you from all this nonsense. But where did all that nonsense come from in the first place? It turns out that this is largely Google's fault. 23/ 11012 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026Google and Facebook monopolized the display advertising market, entering into an illegal, collusive arrangement to rig the bidding so that advertisers paid more and publishers received less: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_Blue 24/en.wikipedia.orgJedi Blue - Wikipedia 1846 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026The Google/Meta duopoly suck up 51% of display advertising revenue - more than *triple* the historic take for advertising intermediaries (buyers, brokers, agencies, etc). As ad revenues for web publishers cratered, the "ad load" on web pages went up. 25/ 1775 0
