Yes they did. Its a new precedent set based on anticompetitive practices. Shouldn't be hard to understand.
I know the US is a full blown oligarchy where a few men are allowed to control everything, but the EU actually has some standards.
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I'm fairy sure the guy above said "use X" not use social media. X is a particularly shitty platform.
No. The GDPR is an all encompassing law, the logic of which being giving people THE CHOICE to let apps personalise their ads, or not. Apple takes away that choice by not allowing tracking by default on a per-app basis. This is what is at stake.
What Apple is doing is indeed disrespecting the spirit of the law by taking away the choice of being tracked, while also damaging EU businesses who rely on advertising because believe it or not, there are many small app creators as well as small advertising companies operating in the EU.
First of all, it's not pointless -- every little bit helps.
And I really want to emphasize this. People are having an "all or nothing" attitude about this when that's not even the point.
If we can replace 50, 40, even 30% of the US software we use daily with European alternatives, it's already a massive win for us. The difference then adds up to millions at scale at the end of the fiscal year.
I don't lose sleep over having to add "reddit" or "forum" at the end of my search query.
Its not the EUs fault that US companies keep breaking the law. Don't break the law, don't get fined. It really is simple. EU companies aren't getting these fines.
Do you know how SearXNG works? It literally pulls search results from whatever other SEs you define it should pull from. You just get to reap the perks of all engines, without having to deal with their antagonistic design.
Who pays for all of it in the end? The people who still want to use Google's service and feed their all-reaching tentacles. But that is their choice.
Yeah, that's the thing about Sear. You can customise it how you want and that's it. No need to let some corpo be in control of what and how you see your results.
Yikes. Thanks
Is that real, or a misinterpretation of the law?
I meant to say SearXNG. Still being maintained.
If the owner is european, doesn't that mean taxes are paid here?