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> For many services, there simply is no EU-based alternative without any affiliation to US-based companies.

This could actually prove to be a boon for EU devs. A huge market of “X-but-GDPR-compliant” just opened up. Plausible is already out there doing analytics, I know Sweden has a service for GDPR-compliant commenting for newspapers.

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> X-but-GDPR-compliant

That market does not exist, it will never make money (maybe from leeching the public sector but everyone makes some scraps there). In fact the idea that laws will create a market was a bad idea.

In some instances, yes. For the most part, however, this simply is not realistic. There's no viable exclusively EU-based video conferencing service, for example.

Currently, the only GDPR-compliant solution in that case is to self-host a tool like Jitsi, which comes with the security headaches outlined above, though.

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