First RCS now this, today has been wild
I’m a Linux guy and I don’t really care about Windows, but I’m glad to see this happening and every day I thank Europe for being the main entity fighting for regulation of big tech monopolies, because America is really failing.
EU is very much a mixed bag. On the one hand, they do this, on the other hand, they tried to ban P2P encryption and microtargetted religious and elderly in resisting countries, feeding them the classic “it’s for the children’s safety” lies.
Though we have to remind ourselves that it’s mainly the EU Commission who does this.
The Supreme Court spoke out against it from the very beginning, the Parliament voted against it, it’s really only the Commission who doesn’t want to understand that EU law applies to them, too.
Quite a few positions in there that need to be held by new people who understand the damn law.
they tried to ban P2P encryption
They recently enshrined it as an unalienable human right as a world first.
America is a huge corporation.
Its nuts that during the Obama admin, all anyone cared about was the threat of zero privacy. Now everyone in the US has surrendered to it, because our politicians have sold our digital privacy rights to the tech companies.
America is getting paid to do it.
Maybe the FCC is still resisting for now.California is doing okay, all things considered
America empowers these bozos
I’m one illness or accident from being financially ruined, what do you really expect me to do about it?
Start a revolution.
Hey, 'Muricans, how come we need to pressure every company into compliance for you?
For $100,000 the US Congress will tell you!
Do you really think any average citizen has any say in this whatsoever?
Yes. You’re a democracy, right? Right?
Nah. Those corps will still do it at home or sell it as PR at home.
Idk, how come we need to fund your wars?
Hey, 'Peans, how come you think a country larger than your pseudo continent is a homogenous hivemind?
E: what Ive learned from this comment is that apparently, all europeans share 1 single trait, which is just utterly horrid reading comprehension
Erm… Larger by land mass? Yes. Larger by GDP? No. Larger by number of inhabitants? No. Larger by amount of vastly different cultures that somehow get stuff like this done whole very decidedly not being a hive mind? Also no.
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I bet this person is one of those “actually, I’m 1/8th Irish” people…
American moment
It is certainly more diverse lol
ThEre ArE no iMmIgRaNtS in EuRopE
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Firstly, no one said that.
Let me quote:
Lmfao you think europe is more culturally diverse than a country with thousands of cultures from around the world? Thats hilarious.
So yeah. That.
The rest of your comment is blatantly ignorant AND horridly racist, so I think I’ll just do is both a favor and ignore it.
The majority of the immigrant population in 'Murica are from Europe.
Didn’t we do this already back in the 90s with IE bundling??
You should still switch to Linux.
So apparently having consumer-friendly laws does in fact lead to better products. Cool.
Perhaps the USA and other countries should follow the EU’s good example on this.
Why yes Microsoft, I am totally a European in Europe right now…
Omg, I can’t believe this is happening !!
Today when I updated Windows11, I got copilot and we were discussing how it’s unacceptable to not let me uninstall Microsoft Edge, well I was, Copilot was just chilling it, but it did agree eventually
But this is only happening in Europe, which means Microsoft didn’t suddenly turn pure hearted, it’s just the law forcing them into it …
Valve only started doing 2-hour refunds after Australia twisted their arm about it. They brought it to the world, and it became an incredible selling point. Perhaps this will be the same thing.
Valve is a lot more consumer friendly to begin with, though. Don’t get me wrong, they did heaps of bad things too, but compared to Microsoft?
I’m not gonna hold my breath on this one
Thank you Europe. Once again you prove yourself to be what we all aspire to be.
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All for a $12 a month subscription!
Will they?
Or will you just be able to hide them?
ABOUT FUCKING TIME. Take edge and shove it so far up your data tracking sphincter of a face hole.
Can we please get these laws on a global level.
Well they’ll probably reinstall it with every update anyway.
They would get massive fines if they tried that.
I’m not disagreeing, but what entity would enforce those global laws?
La Haye International Court of Justice, of course.
And what happens when the country in question is one that doesn’t care that much about the ICC, and responds “make me”?
To wit: The United States has famously refused to subordinate itself to the ICC
They say if you don’t pay, you’re the product, but that’s obviously bullshit, paying solves nothing. The saying should be never trust corporations.
Yeah turns out businesses behave when you legislate their misdeeds instead of just calling them job creators
Thank god for Europe!
god has nothing to do with it
In this moment, you are euphoric.
You know what I mean. Sheesh.
I do understand - but as a society we’re working to remove unnecessary gendered terms from our language. I believe in doing similar with religious terms.
Language is important. If we’re thanking a deity for the work of government it’s both minimalising the work of elected representatives and exclusionary to other cultures.
Does Linux let you disable its system-embedded advertisements? Didn’t think so!
