Advertisers Demand Antitrust Probe of Google’s Ad-Tracking
- Move follows Google offer to settle German news probe
- Google says it made changes to improve privacy for users
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Digital advertisers are seeking a wider German antitrust probe of Google’s news service, potentially deepening scrutiny of how the search engine gathers data.
The Movement for the Open Web, a group of advertising technology and publishing companies that prefer not to be named for fear of retaliation from the Alphabet Inc. unit, filed a complaint with the German Federal Cartel Office on Tuesday.