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Facebook, Google face tighter regulatory grip in Australia

Australia’s antitrust watchdog wants to create a branch dedicated to investigating the impact on competition by Facebook and Google. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission report follows an 18-month probe and comes just after the US Federal Trade Commission slapped Facebook with a $5 billion fine over privacy issues. Australia’s treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, told reporters that the fine revealed how …

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Brave browser now lets you cash out your ad revenue

With the Brave browser, advertisers can put money into a digital wallet when you see their ads. Now you can start getting that money out again, too. But you’ll have to get used to Brave’s cryptocurrency-like payment system and sign up with the Uphold cryptocurrency exchange to retrieve those payments. If you sign up for it, Brave’s ad system gives …

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