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Re:Google Bard blocks all European Union countries by bertil on Friday May 12, 2023 @08:42AM (#35915393)
Because it’s a large market and Google has a commercial incentive to make their offers available where they can legally do so.
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Re:Google Bard blocks all European Union countries by bioemerl on Friday May 12, 2023 @08:58AM (#35915561)
Do you think they are doing this without commercial incentive in mind? I'm fairly confident they are, and they just decided the costs were not worth it in this case.
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Re:Google Bard blocks all European Union countries by ranger_danger on Friday May 12, 2023 @11:28AM (#35917582)
Google would be profitable even without the entirety of the EU, and I think their decision to continue using practices (elsewhere) that the EU does not allow, probably means that the profit gained from such practices far outweighs the effort of complying with EU + any profit gained from EU users themselves.
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