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‘Frogs in the boiling water’: The Amazon-FTC case and the myth of ad auction transparency

The regulator accused Amazon of “deceptive and unfair practices,” but the e-commerce giant’s opaque auction dynamics aren’t all that unusual in today’s digital ad market.

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