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Not able to click on map during Google search why did they change this (in EU)
- _giorgio_ 3y ago[flagged]
- dns_snek 3y agoWhat are you talking about? Both ChatGPT and Gemini are available in the EU. "EU is just mad" is such a bad faith reductionist take. If you want to live in a corporate dystopia without antitrust & privacy enforcement then go ahead, but don't expect us to follow you.
- yuppiepuppie 3y agoIirc it is blocked in Italy
- lijok 3y agoAs dictated by Italys legislators, not the EU
- kome 3y agoIt works fine in Italy. ChatGPT just had to comply with local privacy regulations (EU's GDPR) and for a few weeks it was off. They were interested in doing this because other countries could have made a case against them, it's just that Italy was the first to move.
- yuppiepuppie 3y agoThanks, I didnt realize it came back online.
- _giorgio_ 3y ago[flagged]
- dns_snek 3y agoTo my knowledge they've never been "blocked". Google simply didn't release them in the EU for a while.
- _giorgio_ 3y agohttps://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14579026?hl=en https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14579026?hl=en
- Akashic101 3y agoIf ChatGPT is blocked it's because of country-laws, not EU. It's perfectly usable inside Germany
- _giorgio_ 3y ago[flagged]
- ricc 3y agoI believe it’s not because Germany actively blocked it, but rather Google did not make it available yet.
- _giorgio_ 3y ago[flagged]
- dns_snek 3y ago[flagged]
- _giorgio_ 3y agoThe app is not available means that it's blocked https://www.google.com/search?q=what+ai+blocked+in+eu+gemini+chatgpt https://www.google.com/search?q=what+ai+blocked+in+eu+gemini... https://leancode.co/blog/how-to-use-gemini-api-in-europe https://leancode.co/blog/how-to-use-gemini-api-in-europe
- dns_snek 3y agoI'm in EU and if I open gemini.google.com, it works! Either all of us EU users are experiencing collective hallucinations, or you don't understand your own linked sources. Feeding the trolls is technically against the site guidelines so I should stop, but I am curious what your motivations are for blatantly lying about easily verifiable facts, on a public forum.
- lijok 3y agoChatGPT is available in the EU. The only country it was blocked in was Italy due to Italian law, not EU. Gemini is available in the EU. The EU launch was delayed by a month to implement the required regulatory controls.
- kome 3y agoHow out of touch are you? no offense, but if you don't see the game that Google is playing with these childish shenanigans, I don't know what to say - it's politics. And of course the regulation of AI is also extremely important. The US government is doing the same thing, but 10 years later (see the recent antitrust case against Apple).
- _giorgio_ 3y agoHow out of touch are you. Offense to you. Bureaucrats can't do anything. They just try to stop innovation. EU is just hurting its own startups. USA, India, China. They all have multibillion AI companies. EU doesn't because nobody wants to deal with unpredictable lawmakers https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/03/16/eu-ai-act-reaction-tech-experts-say-the-worlds-first-ai-law-is-historic-but-bittersweet https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/03/16/eu-ai-act-reaction-...
- rich_sasha 3y agoSeems like a small price to pay for the ongoing effort to prevent the Internet being owned by a small number of [American] mega corps.
- microtonal 3y agoAgreed, but I think that Google is also trying to create outrage against the DMA (or is it DSA in this case?) by complying in the most annoying way possible - “here is a map, but you cannot click it because EU”. Similar to the browser choice screen in iOS, they could also direct you to a page where you select your map provider, which would then be remembered for future map clicks. This doesn’t disadvantage Google Maps competitors and does not introduce this annoyance. (The right answer now should not be to bash the EU, but to move to another search engine that cares about their users more than making their lives more miserable out of spite.)
- _giorgio_ 3y ago[flagged]
- cientifico 3y agoI understand the frustration, but there is nothing preventing Google from adding a link to Google maps and other competitors in the search results. I will personally love to see a link to openstreetmaps that tends to be more detail in my area. This feels more like being evil, than trying to provide a good experience to the user and being nice. (Maybe they are working on that already)
- lijok 3y agoHow captured the consumer base is by these monopolies. Thread full of people angry at the EU for Google's malicious compliance.
- mmsc 3y agoAre the comments just bots, or do they really believe that the EU said “Google can’t put a clickable link on the Google search result!” like that? Google chose to do it this way.
- lijok 3y agoThere is virtually no intelligent discourse on Reddit left. It is a very angsty, hostile place veiled in a thick layer of fake virtue. Unfortunately many of internets town halls are going the same way. 10 years ago I thought the solution to the declining positive discourse on the internet was profiles attached to real names, real photos. Then twitter proved me wrong.
- _giorgio_ 3y ago[flagged]
- ricc 3y agoAFAIK, these tight regulations are only applicable for those big enough to be considered “gatekeepers.” Can’t remember the specific criteria but should be easy to research. So it’s kind of “fear-mongering” to say that it also applies to startups.
- enkne 3y agoI got so annoyed that I created Chrome extension that brings clickable maps back. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-maps-quickclick-se/ippkeibgeeegemmdjhlhbdlcfjkgjann https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-maps-quickcl...