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She makes some good points, but only focuses on Google's monopoly being an issue. It is, but there's no mention of privacy concerns, the oversaturation of ads, space being created for ads by deliberately worsening the UX, etc. The industry itself is a shitshow.
The issue isn't so much that Google has a monopoly on the enormously invasive data that's collected. The issue is that it is being collected.
I agree with you about the core of the problem, but the reason the monopoly is the thing being focussed on is because that's the legal basis against Google that we have right now (speaking as someone who enthusiastically followed the proceedings).
The crucial bit now that Google has been deemed an illegal monopolist is how this gets resolved, because of the possible remedies to this situation, some are better for user privacy, and some are worse. This is an opportunity to do some real good here on that front.
Unfortunately, as I understand it, actually getting to a solution will take time, because of how Google will try to haggle down whatever remedy is suggested. This seems likely to be easier to do under a Trump administration.