[hypfer]

> But if you hold that position, you also have to be fine with companies not offering products and services in your country.

Well.. I mean.. yeah? I don't think this is as bad as you think it is.

Have you looked at SV and its product offerings recently? It's mostly just enshittified gamified value extraction that doesn't respect the user at all.

"If you do not let us do all this the way we want, we will take away your ability to use our shit" hits different when the "shit" in that sentence is actually just "shit".

[ben_w]

I'm half-remembering a now-old satire along the same lines has Germans wondering why having Google Street View work in their area also requires internal photos of their apartments.

[TonyTrapp]

This one? :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMFBuHsKXb0

[ben_w]

Genau :)