Everything gets worse. We keep receipts.

The UK competition regulator proposes yearly search-choice prompts for Google Android and Chrome, with eligible AI assistants on the list and clear attribution for publisher material.

A US FTC draft warns that a retailer may mislead customers if it presents a price as ordinary while secretly using their personal data to decide what they will pay.

The US Federal Trade Commission and 22 states allege Amazon secretly changed the pricing of its sponsored product auctions, raising costs for advertisers and potentially flowing through to shoppers.

The European Commission issued two Digital Markets Act decisions against Google: one on how its own services appear in Search, and one on developers’ ability to direct customers to other ways to pay.

The US Federal Trade Commission says Amazon’s US$2.5 billion Prime settlement includes refunds for eligible customers affected by challenged enrolment and cancellation flows.

Connected hardware can turn a durable object into an account, advertising and data-collection relationship. A recent FTC order involving GM and OnStar shows why the physical product is no longer the whole product.

The cheap, ad-free all-in-one pitch gave way to fragmented libraries, price rises, advertising tiers and accounts that provide access rather than ownership.

Dating services sell hope, attention and subscriptions at the same time. The product test is whether the bill, cancellation route and claims about connection remain honest when the user is vulnerable to urgency.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority is consulting on requirements that would let app developers tell customers about payment options outside Apple and Google’s platforms.

Social platforms began with people choosing who to follow. The mature model increasingly routes attention through recommendation systems, advertising inventory and platform-controlled distribution.

Search began as a concise route to other sites. Its current incentives include advertising, proprietary answer surfaces and AI features that can reduce the reason to continue to the source.

The FTC’s antitrust case alleges that Amazon’s growing seller, fulfilment and advertising fees turned paid placement into a practical cost of reaching shoppers. The case remains unresolved.