Microsoft filed an EU antitrust complaint about the service in 2009 and the EU Commission formally launched its probe in 2016</>
The article says this is for text ads. The antitrust suit covering floppy disks will be out soon.
Snark aside, I’m finding that browsing the internet is becoming hard to tolerate. It used to be easy to read and scroll through a page as graphics loaded. Now I sit helplessly for a minute watching the text jump around as each ad space is sold and filled. When the page finally settles down and I start reading, a popup covers the screen, asking me to create an account or sign up for an emailed newsletter or get the app or like and follow somewhere.
I know content providers need to eat, but they drive me away before I even get to the content.