[Nextgrid]

Not necessarily, if the enforcement of these regulations allows domestic competitors (that respect the GDPR) to appear?

If Europe takes this stance, those competitors could also be allowed to mirror the content from foreign, non-GDPR-compliant companies, effectively giving them the best of both worlds?

[Aerroon]

And how would that domestic competitor make money? Can't use ads, can't charge a subscription fee. What else?

Where would this domestic competitor even get the content from? Steal it from YouTube/TikTok?

[Nextgrid]

You can charge a subscription fee. You can even use untargeted ads as an alternative.

But maybe the website can just (in combination with a universal micropayments system) charge a reasonable fee and that people will just pay it?

> Steal it from YouTube/TikTok?

That's another hypothesis. The EU could just rule that it's legal to copy content provided for free and then legally "steal" it from other platforms?

[belltaco]

> You can even use untargeted ads as an alternative.

Why wouldn't those ads be blocked? And they cannot take countermeasures if they were held as illegal in this case. Not sure how that's an alternative.

>That's another hypothesis. The EU could just rule that it's legal to copy content provided for free and then legally "steal" it from other platforms?

Won't that kill EU content creators more than other ones, because non-English EU based content is mostly created and consumed within the EU.

[Aerroon]

But YouTube Premium already exists. It costs €8.5/month here. It gets rid of all of the ads.

[Nextgrid]

The cost should be closer to what current ad impressions cost though, which is a few cents per page load at most.