European Commission issues Meta with hefty fine for tying Facebook and Marketplace

14 November 2024
The company obviously disagrees and has promised to appeal the decision.

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  • 15 Nov 2024

This

This was one of the main reasons I deleted FB years ago. It wasn't a social website anymore. They had turned it into big, intrusive business, with ads and marketplace option running everywhere. It wasn't a pleasure to use FB anymore
And till this day I don't miss FB anymore. Best decision ever

    Anonymous, 14 Nov 2024Or Google.Google Maps and Gmail maybe...

    those two are the most useful two google apps imo

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      • Anonymous
      • 0qB
      • 15 Nov 2024

      Go EC! Show these companies what fair acts should be!

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        • Anonymous
        • 8uX
        • 14 Nov 2024

        With actions like this, right now EU makes for a much better father figure for US zoomie pups than Roe Jogan, Taint or any of those other pickme manosphere clowns.

        Rolling up all kinds of services into a social media drip-drip-drip brainrot for the ill-informed and preventing competitors from even advertising on portions of the platform (or the fig-leaf defence being: making it very hard-very expensive for competitors) IS anti-competitive and harmfully customer-unfriendly since SugerMountain can dictate all and every term based on its own whims. Hope the fines keep coming, since if there's anything that the US has shown in the past few decades is that M$FT got the boot when its head got too large for its own good...but in 2024 Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft (of today lol) all get the moist tongue, as long as pockets get filled and lobbies provide the "motivation" in kind.

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          • Anonymous
          • Ib5
          • 14 Nov 2024

          Anonymous, 14 Nov 2024European commission adds another fatality to their hit list... moreOr Google.

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            • Emn
            • 14 Nov 2024

            I am not sure what is happening in EC but surely they do know that it is the user's choice to pull up the Marketplace if they don't find something they need in another online shopping app or something they need to get in a hurry, an option to meet the person selling it for assurance.

            Of course, I gotta be with Meta on this one since they did state that it is not that the users "have to" engage on this feature. Meta even has a feature in Facebook's settings where they can disable the Marketplace shortcut.

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              • Anonymous
              • jsQ
              • 14 Nov 2024

              European commission adds another fatality to their hit list
              Who's next? Microsoft perhaps

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