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> It is the lack of a predictable regulatory landscape in Europe
I disagree that it is unpredictable. It is predictably a bit more pro-citizen/consumer than the USA. That should not be surprising to anyone at this point.
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#13So even if the fine sticks and doesn't get overturned on appeal, that's 390 million over 4 years of blatantly breaching the GDPR, so on average ~97M/year. This means it's merely a cost of doing business and they should continue.
GDPR allows for much stiffer fines, which would surely be imposed if it was wilfully breached as you suggest.
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Also because people are more conscious about their privacy and politics are put in place to protect European citizen from corporation. Its far from perfect but probably better than other places.
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Just because we somehow ended up in a situation where spyware got effectively decriminalised doesn't mean it's a good situation especially in the long-term. If nobody is willing to pay for your product, maybe it shouldn't exist?
Can Meta cover its operational costs without personalized ads? Re: its ability to exist. Or is the issue that it’s unpalatable to wall st and investors and advertisers without ad personalization driven growth
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Just because we somehow ended up in a situation where spyware got effectively decriminalised doesn't mean it's a good situation especially in the long-term. If nobody is willing to pay for your product, maybe it shouldn't exist?
How much do you pay for HN?
I'd be more than happy to pay for HN, but I think it's a very bad example as it's not funded by any kind of ads/tracking (not directly at the very least).
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Child labor laws and minimum wage also made some revenue models untenable, and the world is better off for it. I want to live in a world where businesses can profit without having to spy on people. This is a good step in that direction.
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Just because we somehow ended up in a situation where spyware got effectively decriminalised doesn't mean it's a good situation especially in the long-term. If nobody is willing to pay for your product, maybe it shouldn't exist?
Spyware? This is about logging activity of users on the same app that you built, not tracking them across the internet.
Writing down what someone does while interacting with your own business was never "criminalized" to begin with.
Businesses do pay for this product.
Unilaterally making tech products illegal after backlash in the media is precisely why capital is deallocated from Europe to other places with less reactive regulatory environments and leaves the people in those countries poorer than they would have been, less able to afford vacations with their family, higher quality housing, air conditioning, appropriate medical care. These effects all spill over to every day life in Europe.
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Just because we somehow ended up in a situation where spyware got effectively decriminalised doesn't mean it's a good situation especially in the long-term. If nobody is willing to pay for your product, maybe it shouldn't exist?
> If nobody is willing to pay for your product, maybe it shouldn't exist?
Hm, so you think it's better for the world for poor people to not have access to information via tools like Google?
I think the fact that you need to use emotionally loaded language like spyware to make your argument really detracts from it.
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Good riddance. If technological innovation is defined by abusive power, privacy invading, data hoarding/sharing/analysis, then I'm just fine living in the stone ages where this is not possible. If technological innovation is creating software that makes things more efficient without tracking the habits of its users, then I'm all for it. You can have the latter without the former. It is possible. We just need people with morals and scruples and not money hungry assholes that will do whatever they can to turn a buck regardless of the end results.