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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… :)

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      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?)

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        2 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.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        This is not true. You need to have years of presence OR have Hungarian ancestry and a few years less presence OR be married to a Hungarian for a couple years. Top this off with being able to know the Hungarian language.

          • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Other countries have a similar system. Canada for example has the Start-up Visa, which requires about C$225k investment, or the Quebec one (now suspended) which required C$1.25m over five years.

            From what I can tell, the Hungarian requires somewhere between 200 and 300k EUR. This is not something that is affordable or easy to attain for the average lemmy poster. But again, this also does not guarantee citizenship, just residency.

            In short, requesting a work or study visa and then trying for the citizenship test five years later, after having learned the language, is probably a much more attainable way. But still far from the easiest country to emigrate to.

  • knotthatone@lemmy.oneEnglish
    401·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      2 months ago

      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

  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
    371·
    2 months ago

    "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.

  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    2 months ago

    • 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.

    • 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?

  • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
    181·
    2 months ago

    Sounds like it’s working to me.

    Zuckbot, comply with GDPR or forget about EU.