Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.

Advertisers are struggling to make sense of retail media network performance and metrics according to a small sample (63) surveyed by the ANA. The most pressing challenges are standardization of metrics across networks (55%), attribution (48%) and the timeliness of data and analytics (40%). For another view of the topic, check out this report from IAB.

Google lashed out at the Department of Justice’s threat to break up the company, calling the proposals “radical.” Among other things, Google says the proposals would threaten users’ privacy, stifle innovation and break Android and Chrome. Given the appeals process, it will likely be years before we know whether Google will stay in one piece.