European alternatives to Google Ads
Google's advertising platform, the engine that funds most of Alphabet's revenue. It's built on pervasive tracking across the web, all processed on US infrastructure.
Company information about Google Ads
- Company
- Google LLC
- Parent company
- Alphabet Inc.
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, United States
- Founded
- 2000
- Data jurisdiction
- United States
- Ownership
- Publicly traded
- GDPR
- No
- Open source
- No
- Infrastructure
- Own infrastructure
Why people switch away from Google Ads
European alternatives to Google Ads
A Copenhagen-based, independent full-stack advertising platform running entirely on its own European infrastructure – an alternative to the Google ad stack.
Paris-headquartered commerce-media and retargeting platform. A large, publicly traded European adtech alternative to the Google and Meta ad duopoly.
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Why avoid United States-owned services?
CLOUD Act
Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.
FISA Section 702
Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.
GDPR vs US law conflict
EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.