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> with respect to the privacy that US or Chinese products provide

Does this mean that EU apps all charge subscriptions or are advertising heavy in order to provide their service and data privacy?

They are not charities so if they are not selling their data, they have to be making money some other way

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IMO Europeans have much less "we MUST scale to infinity and beyond" mentality than SV culture. Once you have a working product that pays 10 people, just being able to pay those 10 people + a little margin can be enough. And not trying to scale to infinity means cash is used more efficiently, thus small ad revenu can be enough.

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