The scam is it’s an unregulated global monopoly, so it can. Its Alphabet is making record profits, $US18.5b in the last quarter alone, almost 30% of revenue. But it is not enough, Google feels so hard hit by the mostly non-existing “digital services regulations” imposed on them that they want to charge advertisers more; so a 5% surcharge will be added to Google and YouTube advertisers in some countries from 1 October.

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