Canada’s antitrust watchdog sues Google

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Canada’s antitrust watchdog sues

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Canada’s Competition Bureau is suing

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for alleged anti-competitive conduct in its online advertising.

In a statement, the country’s antitrust watchdog alleged

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had illegally linked two advertising tools to maintain market supremacy and used this dominant position to distort ad auctions by preferring its own tools.

The agency said it had filed an application with the Competition Tribunal, a court-like independent body, that would require

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to sell two of its ad technology tools.

In a statement

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said the complaint out of Canada “ignores the intense competition where ad buyers and sellers have plenty of choice and we look forward to making our case in court”.

“Our advertising technology tools help websites and apps fund their content, and enable businesses of all sizes to effectively reach new customers,” said Dan Taylor, vice-president of global advertising.

This case centers on online web advertisements – the ads shown to users while visiting other websites.

Digital ad inventory – the space website publishers make available for ***** – is often bought and sold through automated auctions using digital platforms.

These platforms are known as ad tech tools, while the entire set of tools used through the purchasing process are known as the ad tech stack.

According to the Competition Bureau, an investigation found that

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had “abused its dominant position” as the biggest ad tech stack in Canada.

“Through a series of calculated decisions, taken over the course of multiple years,

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has excluded competitors and entrenched itself at the center of online advertising,” the Competition Bureau said in its notice announcing the suit of Thursday.

“

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’s near-total control of the ad-tech [software] is a function of premeditated design and conduct, rather than superior competitive performance or happenstance.”

The agency said it was asking the Competition Tribunal to force

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to sell two of its ad tech tools, and pay a fine of as much as 3% of the company’s global revenue “to promote compliance” with Canada’s competition laws.

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has 45 days to file its response with the tribunal.

The case comes a week after the US justice department and a group of states demanded

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sells Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser – just one of a series of remedies meant to stop the tech giant from maintaining its monopoly in online search.

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