Even a company the size of Google can be divided up
Monopolies can exist when there is technically still competition. Being a monopoly does *NOT* mean you've destroyed all other competitors or that you are literally the only entity in the entire universe offering a good or service.
Whether an entity represents a monopoly is a subjective measure. It is *NOT* a binary true/false based on trivially observable data. It mostly comes down to how the entity behaves with regard to competitors. Principally, using unfair and uncompetitive pricing and sales strategies, egregious lock-ins, and using your market-dominant position to force competitors and consumers to operate in certain ways.
The fact that other ad markets exist at all does not disqualify google from being a monopoly.
https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
In terms of how the AdTech stack could look afterwards, here is a paper (I authored) advocating for the introduction of an interop layer such that users could choose which advertising network to use with Google's products and services: https://doi.org/10.36633/ulr.1113
rolph•2mo ago
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