[_Algernon_]

1. Force Apple and Google to remove the apps from stores.

2. Lowest effort DNS blocker to exclude the 90% who don't care enough to circumvent.

2. Let the lack of network effects and time do the rest.

Sure, a few will hold on, and there will probably be a temporary "buy a phone with fb installed for 10000$" market, but given time, Facebook/Whatsapp/etc. will be dead in Europe.

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Except politicians will have to come out as supporting a ban on the most popular apps that tens of millions people use every day. Which outside of HN circles would probably be unpopular (see how the proposed Tiktok ban was received in America). And have sites ever even been blocked for GDPR violations before / in which member states would mandating ISPs block sites on that basis even be allowed?