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Would pulling out of EU be a better decision in this scenario?
by devmunchies 8y ago
Would pulling out of EU be a better decision in this scenario?
- bassman9000 8y agoGood. Then someone with a different business model, not relying on selling the user, would fill the gap. And make billions.
- jimnotgym 8y agoThe EU is a huge market. Why would you not want to sell to them?
- Kalium 8y agoDepends on how large the company's expected market is there. In most cases, the sheer size and wealth of the EU makes this also a bad idea. Of course, there are hypothetical scenarios - though I can't think of a realistic one right now - where the EU division is only profitable with the economies of scale enabled by worldwide data-sharing. The assumption that anything and everything can be done profitable in a GDPR-compliant way is naive at best, deluded at worst, but not universally wrong. Though between GDPR and the link tax proposal I can see news aggregators ceasing to exist entirely within the EU. Which seems very likely to do a great deal of harm to a lot of newspapers.