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Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR (www.axios.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] cheese_greater 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism at its best

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say "capitalism", given that some of the alternatives filling the gap to be non-commercial in nature.

[–] ricdeh 12 points 4 months ago

Free market economy at its best

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I feel like there's a good chance that this happens, as long as they catch inside the EU, due to network effect.