Comment by fidotron

> So you mean to say that they made the same mistake that the supposed European users did with the app stores?

Absolutely, and they learned from this, as did Apple, hence the rules they came up with to stop Google and Facebook from doing what they were trying to do, which the EU remain oblivious to, supposedly.

This is why new Google products and services are basically doomed to fail in the US market, almost regardless of how good they are.

> Yet they are on the same very public and absolutely no private or secure social networks (Facebook, TikTok, Instagram) as the rest of the world?

You missed a big one: Snapchat; popular mainly in the US purely because of the privacy angle. Those others you mention are used for deliberate sharing.