{"id":221473,"date":"2025-09-06T03:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/eu-fines-google-3-5-billion-for-anti-competitive-ad-practices"},"modified":"2025-09-06T03:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:22:25","slug":"eu-fines-google-3-5-billion-for-anti-competitive-ad-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/eu-fines-google-3-5-billion-for-anti-competitive-ad-practices","title":{"rendered":"EU fines Google $3.5 billion for anti-competitive ad practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eu-fines-google-3-5-billion-for-anti-competitive-sad-practices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Commission has fined Google \u20ac2.95 billion ($3.5 billion) for abusing its dominance in the digital advertising technology market and favoring its adtech services over those of its competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Google was also ordered by the EU\u2019s top antitrust regulator to stop anti-competitive and \u201cself-preferencing\u201d practices and take measures to mitigate future conflicts of interest in the adtech market.<\/p>\n<p>Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google\u2019s Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, told BleepingComputer that the antitrust regulator\u2019s decision was wrong and that the company will appeal it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has fined Google \u20ac2.95 billion ($3.5 billion) for abusing its dominance in the digital advertising technology market and favoring its adtech services over those of its competitors. Google was also ordered by the EU\u2019s top antitrust regulator to stop anti-competitive and \u201cself-preferencing\u201d practices and take measures to mitigate future conflicts of interest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}