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by formerly_proven 289 days ago
> The EU has 450M (+80M for UK & similar non-eu countries that are likely to follow the EU on such regulations) population to the US' 350M.

Europeans are much poorer on average though, so actual revenue figures are rather the inverse of these population figures (they actually skew much more to the US than that, but anyhow).
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ThePowerOfFuet 289 days ago
>Europeans are much poorer on average though

Some people are so poor that all they have is money.

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jjani 289 days ago
The EU is still a massive profit center for these companies. Over 2025 Alphabet's revenue was around $170B in US and $100B in EMEA. Imagine if Google couldn't operate in half of the US, and how impactful that would be. Yet EMEA revenue is higher than that.
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pjmlp 289 days ago
Any company will rather get pennies from me, than none at all.

Many pennies together add up.

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blackqueeriroh 289 days ago
Mmmm, you should look at distribution figures.
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