Oh yes Ebay was there first as a reseller platform (now source of tax revenue) and conduit for Chinese imports, rivaling Amazon's own. This left nowhere for local garage sales, Meta stepped in. Ebay must have been furious.

Sad that both the accusation of data harvesting and the rubuttal that there was no competition are both correct. No innovation due to over-regulation, and no government cared enough about the data for eight years.

Now the EU government wants something in return. I wonder why.