Probably the EU laws are getting too draconian. I'm starting to see it a lot.
At this point, I think paying Facebook to advertise is a waste of money — the actual spam in my junk email folder is better targeted.
If only we’d be so lucky. I don’t thing they will, but fingers crossed.
[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230601STO...
Maybe they mean specific uses of these things in a centralised manner but the way it’s written makes it sound incredibly broad.
The same reason that Threads was launched with a delay in EU. It simply takes a lot of work to comply with EU regulations, and by no surprise will we see these launches happen outside of EU first.
But if you say "It's because of regulations!" I hope you have a source to back that up.
The AI Act will significantly nerf the capabilities you will be allowed to benefit from in the eu.
Regulations in the name of the users are actually just made to solidify the top lobbyists in their positions.
The reasons I hate regulations is not because billionaires have to spend an extra week on some employee's salary, but because it makes it impossible for me tiny business to enter a new business due to the sheer complexity of it (or force me to pay more for someone else to handle it, think Paddle vs Stripe thanks to EU VATMOSS)
I'm completely fine with giving away some usage data to get a free product, it's not like everyone is against it.
I'd also prefer to be tracked without having to close 800 pop-ups a day.
Draconian regulations like the EU ones destroy entire markets and force us to a single business model where we all need to pay with hard cash.
MOSS is a massive reduction in overhead vs registering in each individual country, isn't it? Or are you really just saying you don't like sales tax?
But, in my experience, it is also true that "regulations" is sometimes a convenient excuse for a vendor to not do something, whether or not the regulations actually say that.
Years ago, I worked for a university. We were talking to $MAJOR_VENDOR sales about buying a hosted student email solution from them. This was mid-2000s, so that kind of thing was a lot less mainstream then compared to now. Anyway, suddenly the $MAJOR_VENDOR rep turned around and started claiming they couldn't sell the product to us because "selling it to a .edu.au domain violates the Australian Telecommunications Act". Never been a lawyer, but that legal explanation sounded very nonsensical to me. We ended up talking to Google instead, who were happy to offer us Google Apps for Education, and didn't believe there were any legal obstacles to their doing so.
I was left with the strong suspicion that $MAJOR_VENDOR didn't want to do it for their own internal reasons (product wasn't ready, we weren't a sufficiently valuable customer, whatever) and someone just made up the legal justification because it sounded better than whatever the real reason was
Whether that applies to the specific regulations in question here, I don't know – but even if it doesn't, it may take them some time for their lawyers to research the issue and tell them that.
Similarly, for Serbia, a plausible explanation is they don't actually know what laws and regulations it may have on this topic–they probably don't have any Serbian lawyers in-house, and they may have to contract with a local Serbian law firm to answer that question for them, which will take time to organise. Whereas, for larger economies (US, EU, UK, etc), they probably do have in-house lawyers.
You also said that when Meta delayed the Threads release by a few weeks in the EU. I recommend reading the princess on a pea fairytale since you seem to be quite sheltered, using the term draconian as liberally.
July to December is not "a few weeks"