Now it is France’s turn to point a harsh spotlight onto online advertising, with the suggestion that Google and Facebook have significant unfair advantages in the display sector. This has an ugly feel about it, in that in February Germany’s cartel office began a full scale enquiry into the same subject. It turns out that this was based on the same research which was carried out in conjunction with the French the competition authority “Autorité de la concurrence.” Now both of them are ready to take things a step further. As we said in that story in February, it seems that Google and Facebook have unnatural advantages which local suppliers of advertising cannot hope to catch up, mostly data acquired…