The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an EU law that takes effect on March 6, 2024. As a result of the DMA, in the EU, Google offers you the choice to keep certain Google services linked.
Gotta love the weaselly language.
I’m wondering if they try to slither out of actually complying with the law.
- They say they will unlink whatever “Ad Services” is and everything else. IMO they should unlink customer ad profiles from other service accounts, which I don’t expect them to do.
- The whole point of the DMA is not just to have Google unlink your Youtube account from your Gmail account, but that they provide the same level of service and integration to outside services as with their own, without prioritizing their own. That means that I should be able to use Google Chrome and Search together to the same degree as Firefox and Search. Execs at Google are on record saying the only point of them developing Chrome is to do stuff that is now against the law in Europe. I wonder if they find a new business model or keep the current, illegal one.
Good Guy EU
Just wait for some corporate white knight to come here and explain how EU is stopping innovation. Love these guys, I always have a bag of popcorn at the ready.
REEEEEE MUH LIGHTNING PORT REEEEE IT WAS SUCH INNOVATION REEEEEEEE USBC KILLED MUH 11 YEAR OLD USB2.0 SPEED CONNECTOR
Sometimes the EU kicks ass. Other times, it’s the opposite. See EU browser root certs.
Well, EU at least isn’t compromised like US governments, and still have some sense and its bureaucracy have some senses to prevent Big Tech taking over them, but because of the same bureaucracy and lack of and unwilling to look at opinions from the tech experts, many of their decisions are well, facepalm-worthy such as their upcoming root certs (like you said above) and CRA.
Nah, they already announced they will let EU users uninstall Edge. But only EU users because consumer choice bad.
I wonder why not that many people do this. And those that do usually only give you Ubuntu and nothing else.
I mean, there’s the Slimbook and all, but shipping to my country is more expensive than a US cable subscription for one month.
They would dare, I think, maybe even the reverse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
Google may be forced by the EU to give you the freedom to choose which services are linked*
