[RubyRidgeRandy]

on the contrary, I think facebook and google have a huge incentive to work with different governing bodies to define what data is ok to collect and build identifiers around, and what is not. There is no way facebook would just throw up it's hands and say "we have no incentive to find a way to advertise to a population of 750 million people."

[hailwren]

> There is no way facebook would just throw up it's hands and say "we have no incentive to find a way to advertise to a population of 750 million people."

And yet, this is exactly what they do repeatedly [1] [2] [3].

1 - https://www.vice.com/en/article/889pk3/facebook-threatens-to...

2 - https://www.exchangewire.com/blog/2022/02/08/facebook-threat...

3 - https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/01/google-is-threatening-to-k...

[Shish2k]

I would suggest reading some of the sources of those stories instead of just the headlines ^^

(Spoilers: the reality of the “threatens to leave Europe” headline is a much less click-baity “lists ‘leaving Europe’ as one of many possible paths to take, but one they would prefer to avoid”)

[forty]

> one of many possible paths to take, but one they would prefer to avoid

This seem to be exactly the sentence one would use to respectfully threaten someone else (try it with a different theme, it might be clearer: "we are exploring all possible solutions to the conflict, going nuclear is just one of the way but one we would prefer to avoid")

[CountSessine]

Yes - especially if they can do this in a way that still makes them money but is expensive and burdensome to comply with. That would keep them in the game but seal the market off to potential competitors.