Google has been fined a total of €890m (£760m) by the EU for breaches of online competition laws by its search and app store services.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said Google had broken the Digital Markets Act by giving priority to its own services, such as shopping and hotel deals, in search results over those of its rivals.
It also infringed the DMA by preventing app developers from steering consumers towards cheaper offers, including for subscriptions, on websites or alternative app stores.
0.000000000000000001% fine.
Brutal.
It’s pretty much just the cost of Google doing business now, right?
That they keep getting fined for the same things strongly suggests this is not a deterrent and they’ve factored in the fines as a tax that’s harder to dodge than most.
