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Does this mean we dont get to be tracked, data mined, ad-bombed, and exploited while our teens dont get depressed and sick from “social” media?
Well, if thats the price we pay, thats the price we pay… :)
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What’s the easiest EU country to emigrate to?
If you have no human principles, Hungary. You just have to buy some papers for it. Maybe learn a hard and useless language. But definitely love corruption and the suffering of other humans.
This is not true. You need to have years of presence OR have Hungarian ancestry and a few years less presence OR be married to a Hungarian for a couple years. Top this off with being able to know the Hungarian language.
Thanks for taking my joke literally and showing me a new search engine. That Google one seems pretty good. I’ve been using AltaVista and my BBS to find info but that’s way quicker.
Also, if you want to be a smart ass about it, use https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=dikfore
I was gonna one-up you with Lycos but as it turns out, it still works!
Also, if you want to be a smart ass about it, use https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=dikfore
There’s really no reason for you to be rude.
Why do I need a reason?
People are pissed but I actually liked the link, so thank you.
Google? Yikes
If the products or “products” being withheld are deemed useful by their users, you’re bound to have someone filling the gap created by the butthurt tech giants leaving. Without all the associated data vulturing.
Capitalism at its best
I wouldn’t say “capitalism”, given that some of the alternatives filling the gap to be non-commercial in nature.
Free market economy at its best
If we’re really lucky, those replacements might even become competition for the original products outside the EU, and drive the data vultures out of business.
(Something has to go right in this timeline eventually, right?)
This is more bark than bite, imo. They’re just threatening to withhold products at this point, but as the article points out:
- Europe’s a big market and profit focused companies aren’t going to give that up just to make a point
- Those that do will just encourage European competition to step up and fill whatever gaps might appear, which is just fine by the EU.
So… go right ahead. Let’s see how this really plays out.
Same argument for any case where cooperations bitch and whine about regulations.
And the products they are threatening to withhold are exactly the products we don’t want. Last time the tech giants threatened to leave entirely the EU asked when to plan the going away party. The current tactic from the giants isn’t much better
"Meta has decided not to release a new multimodal AI model and related products in the EU.
The move follows a similar decision last month by Apple to withhold its new Apple Intelligence features from Europe."
Oh no. Wait. Come back.
wow so they’re holding back on wasteful broken products?Seems like win win
Sounds like it’s working to me.
Zuckbot, comply with GDPR or forget about EU.
In this case I think it’s the DMA they’re butthurt about.
Really hope so.
Corpo propaganda at it again…
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You might think that but you’re missing cool thing like, ah… the metaverse…?
If your “product” is stealing my information for your “AI” or extorting me to buy “dongles”, then please “withhold” it.
We don’t want your shitty products :)
Oh dear, how sad, never mind
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Apple reversed log standing design policy to put a USB C charger in the iPhone because not selling iPhones in Europe was not a financially viable option.
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Apple won’t launch their AI features in Europe because changing to comply with regulations is too hard
These features aren’t that important then I guess?
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Threatening a dog with a weiner I see. That’s a bold strategy.
This just in: good time threatened. O no
USA only wishes we were this cool.
It’s too bad the websites that do this don’t have to put a label on it in the U.S. Something like “Not for consumption in the E.U.” to make people wonder what’s going on.
I’m struggling with this as a website operator. I don’t have any third-party tracking, no external assets, nothing and I’m dying to put up a cookie banner stating as such even though it’s totally unnecessary and annoying.
