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Jack Shanahan's avatar

Excellent post, thank you.

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Tim Tyler's avatar

Re: "What I expect to happen next is that US companies will largely ignore the EU laws, European citizens will want to use the American services anyway, and then EU authorities will come under pressure for a face-saving compromise."

It didn't happen with the cookies. US users get the cookie pop-ups, not just the EU users. If US companies will ignore the EU laws, they get fined by the EU (if they still want to operate there). EU gains significant sums from American companies thay way. Overall, this is a pretty terrible strategy by the EU - but it's what's happened so far.

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