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IMO the fines do have an effect - Google now withholds a lot of launches from the EU, sometimes temporarily until they have time to have lawyers check them agai
by brainwad 3mo ago
IMO the fines do have an effect - Google now withholds a lot of launches from the EU, sometimes temporarily until they have time to have lawyers check them against DMA requirements, but mostly permanently. Ironically the part of Google most likely to persist in launching for the EU is Ads, since money is at stake. All the free, consumer-benefiting services are most likely to be curtailed in the face of aggressive regulation.
- teddyh 3mo agoYou say that like it’s a bad thing.
- soco 3mo agoYay for European sovereign services! A bit through the backdoor, or as a side-effect if you want, but the result is the same. Or could be the same, if it continues like that.
- surgical_fire 3mo ago> All the free, consumer-benefiting services Those are just more avenues for Google to collect data to shove ads down everyone's throats. Good that regulations keeps Google from releasing more pf their shit here. Governments should really tighten the screws there.
- gowld 3mo agoThe ads are getting shoved regardless. The content of the ads are based on personalization data.
- cryptonym 3mo ago> All the free, consumer-benefiting services If they stop providing value to users, they are putting their ad business at risk. It's never free, providing value to share holders is a top priority.
- brainwad 3mo agoThere are also all the free services that just build goodwill. Those are the most at risk. Of course the "ad carriers" are treated better, since again money is on the line. But any non-essential. feature thereof is also potentially killable.
- vrganj 3mo agoAll of the free services are just part of the ad sales funnel. Never forget, the consumer never benefits, they are only the cattle to be fattened up. Them not launching in Europe gives the local market a chance to build up its own players. China was very successful in this thanks to the Great Firewall.
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- WarmWash 3mo agoThe consumer, who have never paid google a cent despite using their services daily for the last 20 years, likley spending a solid portion of their waking life on one of google's platforms, has never benefited? And you think local players are going to look at users with this comically detached worldview and be like "Yeah, we want to build services for that group of people to use"?
- gowld 3mo agoGoogle doesn't make money from you "paying a cent". They make money from you paying advertisers who pay Google. So the relevant metric is how much you spent on Google advertisers.
- WarmWash 3mo agoRaise your hand if you have ever intentionally clicked on a Google ad. Raise your hand if you use an ad blocker. I rest my case.
- ang_cire 3mo agoYou have paid a lot, if not in money. You paid with your data, that Google read from your emails and searches, and sold for money.
- WarmWash 3mo agoYou load google's ads and trackers?
- KptMarchewa 3mo agoIf something like Facebook never launched here, we'd be so, so, so much better off as a society.