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The alternative being weak data privacy laws and the same consolidation happening anyway? But yes, I'm fine with it. Compliance is really not that hard until y

The alternative being weak data privacy laws and the same consolidation happening anyway? But yes, I'm fine with it. Compliance is really not that hard until you reach the scale of those same dominant players.

hownottowrite 5y ago
So you’re saying yes because you believe the consolidation is happening regardless? Probably true in Europe. Regulation and taxation schemes are onerous there. Only the large can survive.
- drawfloat 5y ago
  That's a very weird reading of that response. But no, that's not at all what I said.
  - hownottowrite 5y ago
    I just read your edit. It doesn’t seem like I had a weird reading at all.
    - Jensson 5y ago
      The companies consolidate in USA regardless of what Europe does, nothing Europe does will change that.
- Jensson 5y ago
  Big companies dominate much more in USA than Europe though, Europe has way more small local companies that compete with Amazon etc.
  - hownottowrite 5y ago
    Absolutely a fair point. How do they get your attention though?
    - Jensson 5y ago
      They play local ads? Google lets you advertise in an area, you see them in Google, in youtube, in facebook etc. And since these companies has much stronger local brand recognition than the American giants they win out in the local markets. Also advertisements is more than just spending money, you need to mesh with the local culture as well. An American multinational doesn't really mesh well with most people and people reject their marketing, while local companies understand much better what the local people wants. In theory the giants could just hire locals, but in practice that has been really hard for them to do, as we can see every country has their own grocery store chains, brands etc.
      - hownottowrite 5y ago
        But local ads without interest context are really no different than large scale brand ads. What's missing is the information about the users interests, which in turn makes the ads more relevant.
        Jensson 5y ago
        It is good that you are concerned, but EU is not lacking small companies. Where I live Uber is not the biggest ride sharing app for example, an European based competitor that started after Uber is bigger. They started after GDPR, so from my perspective it isn't EU that needs to fix its small businesses, it already works. It is USA that needs to prevent businesses from growing huge and dominating their entire market and effectively making it impossible for new entrants to appear. Anyway, we can't refute all your points. It is really easy to just ask more and more questions, but at the end the results is what matters. And the real world results says that Europe is very good for small new businesses.

hownottowrite 5y ago

So you’re saying yes because you believe the consolidation is happening regardless? Probably true in Europe. Regulation and taxation schemes are onerous there. Only the large can survive.

drawfloat 5y ago
That's a very weird reading of that response. But no, that's not at all what I said.
- hownottowrite 5y ago
  I just read your edit. It doesn’t seem like I had a weird reading at all.
  - Jensson 5y ago
    The companies consolidate in USA regardless of what Europe does, nothing Europe does will change that.
Jensson 5y ago
Big companies dominate much more in USA than Europe though, Europe has way more small local companies that compete with Amazon etc.
- hownottowrite 5y ago
  Absolutely a fair point. How do they get your attention though?
  - Jensson 5y ago
    They play local ads? Google lets you advertise in an area, you see them in Google, in youtube, in facebook etc. And since these companies has much stronger local brand recognition than the American giants they win out in the local markets. Also advertisements is more than just spending money, you need to mesh with the local culture as well. An American multinational doesn't really mesh well with most people and people reject their marketing, while local companies understand much better what the local people wants. In theory the giants could just hire locals, but in practice that has been really hard for them to do, as we can see every country has their own grocery store chains, brands etc.
    - hownottowrite 5y ago
      But local ads without interest context are really no different than large scale brand ads. What's missing is the information about the users interests, which in turn makes the ads more relevant.
      - Jensson 5y ago
        It is good that you are concerned, but EU is not lacking small companies. Where I live Uber is not the biggest ride sharing app for example, an European based competitor that started after Uber is bigger. They started after GDPR, so from my perspective it isn't EU that needs to fix its small businesses, it already works. It is USA that needs to prevent businesses from growing huge and dominating their entire market and effectively making it impossible for new entrants to appear. Anyway, we can't refute all your points. It is really easy to just ask more and more questions, but at the end the results is what matters. And the real world results says that Europe is very good for small new businesses.