Pro-privacy upstart claims EU antitrust remedy is not fit for purpose
… “We have been priced out of this auction because we chose not to maximize our profits by exploiting users,” DuckDuckGo. The logic is that the price bid is a commercial decision based on how much profit the search provider expects to make from being the default. “Google’s auction further incentivizes search engines to be worse on privacy, to increase ads, and to not donate to good causes, because, if they do those things, then they could afford to bid higher,” it said. …