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Comment by martimarkov

2 years ago

Yeah having privacy protections for everyone really hurts us… Someone releases something shiny so we should just allow them to harvest personal data and manipulate markets so we get access to it… not really a society I think most giants want to live in. I prefer waiting a bit but knowing that Google needs to play on a bit more even field over here. Plus none of the GDPR or DMA are that bad. Just make sure you comply and get it over with. It’s not that hard to build a privacy centric product that doesn’t steal my data.

On 2 yeah it does. Seems like the UK keeps falling behind on everything now that it lives in the shadow of the continent and can’t seem to create any value and nobody cares about that market. So much for the MaSiVe TraDe DeALZ we were getting unlocked…

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behnamoh  2 years ago

> It’s not that hard to build a privacy centric product that doesn’t steal my data.

Dude, we're talking about Google here...

pb7  2 years ago

> Just make sure you comply and get it over with. It’s not that hard to build a privacy centric product that doesn’t steal my data.

Eh, given that Europe struggles to build anything tech related, I'm going to say it's pretty hard. Far easier to make overpriced luxury handbags and the like.

  • sho_hn  2 years ago

    Aside from, you know, most likely making the machines required to build the computer you're spewing the xenophobia on, and countless other examples that aren't making tech as simple as websites.

    The anti-European gloating on HN is getting tiresome, and imho is a pretty big blind spot of HN moderation.

    • dash2  2 years ago

      I think it's very exaggerated to call this xenophobia and suggest it needs to be moderated. OP said Europe struggles to make tech, and focuses more on luxury. This isn't xenophobic - it's true.

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