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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by gigatexal on Thursday February 10, 2022 @01:48PM (#30290684)
> On the contrary, it only forces those providers to have a European presence.

All the big cloud providers have presences in Europe. What am I missing here?

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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by phatfish on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:23PM (#30294257)
Nothing, this is now a solved problem. The EU didn't want the entire internet being hosted from the US. They designed policies to force hosting within EU countries. It happened.

The only people still moaning are Americans and hold-outs like Google refusing to move data.

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