Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR
Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR
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... :)
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.
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?)
I feel like there's a good chance that this happens, as long as they catch inside the EU, due to network effect.
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.
Malta. You just have to pay a (largish) fee, and they'll have you.
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
Google? Yikes
People are pissed but I actually liked the link, so thank you.
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.
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
Same argument for any case where cooperations bitch and whine about regulations.
"Don't threaten me with a good time"
"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
You're tearing me apart lisa!
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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?
This is a total win for Europeans.
Bring more Europe to the US. Lol
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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.
The article mentions both. Meta is still complaining about GDPR.
We don't want your shitty products :)
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.
oh no, not the products!
Oh.... no... please.... do not do that...
Anyways
Oh dear, how sad, never mind
Oh no! Anyway...
Threatening a dog with a weiner I see. That's a bold strategy.
Could they withhold their existence while we're at it?..
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.
You do not have to put up a cookie banner when you are only using technically required ones ornnone at all. Make a dedicated cookies page in your footer and have a table with every cookie, their name, their description and use as well as how long they last.
If you have none, put that info on that page. All you need to do.
This just in: good time threatened. O no
USA only wishes we were this cool.
Nice! Thank you EU for the GDPR!
For the next step, please let the companies that produce software be held accountable for damages. For Nonprofits change the target to associated companies. Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries. If the library was insufficiently supported by the developer, then the developer has no ground to sue for damages themselves.
Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries.
What??
You write shitty code and it breaks something? You should be punished accordingly.
You load libraries without checking each and every one and now something's broken? You should be punished accordingly.
You load proprietary code and now something's broken? You better checked the whole contract so you can punish the creators after you've been punished.
Software developers often have way more reach (over distance and over time) than they realize. They should be held accountable more like doctors or engineers.
This escalation will continue,
until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:
They will simply say something like:
"Either your government removes laws, regulations, accountability, etc, from us,
XOR we are hamstringing your country: we OWN you, we POSSESS you, & you will obey OUR rule."
I guarantee this will be happening between now & 2036.
Remember how they can ratchet-up a genocide, anywhere??
They've already done so, in some places..
( Facebook & .. was it Myanmar? as 1 example )
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I upvoted purely for using xor in regular speech
until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:
You think governments are resisting?
Governments without lobbying and revolving doors. Yes.
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?
Nah you still get all of that but in a shitter product.
May I introduce you to our friend and saviour, the GDPR regulations?
Nah, you can build algorithms that make depressed teenagers with little to no tracking. Especially if they can train said algorithms from data they already have from the rest of the world.