If the EU rules against Google and Facebook here I suspect the EU will become a digital wasteland. Companies like Google and Facebook wont leave but you will probably be charged for usage.
GDPR doesn’t require that EU users get to use your service for free. If you want to do business in the EU, you have to comply with EU law. If you don’t want to do that, then don’t do business in the EU.
This lawsuit states that Facebook and Google are not legally allowed to deny service.
Reworded my question is, if Google can't make it work why do you think some random company that isn't Google can?
Your response is very emotional and if you aren't interested inc conversing with me civilly please don't.
Right now to compete with Google on 'free', their existing search, browser, mobile & advertising operations make it massively difficult for others to compete and extract similar value from users.
But if that's not allowed, and the practical business models involve charging users directly, it might be possible for small businesses to offer enticing services at comparable prices.
Just going to get worse as there is plenty of other places to do business.
China is an unfree hell hole that I don't want to live in (social score) but you can't argue that from the position of developing a domestic industry their selective blocking/worsening of services allowed the ecosystem to grow intstead of sharecropping on Google's "platform"
Guess we will see. Think instead less product and services will be offered.
If we look at the last 100+ years we can see Europe has fallen and continues to as the other continents rise.