EU Compliance User Blocking

this is a naive take. companies will still be formed. they will just http 451 all EU users. like threads does right now. this will also mean losing out, but i guess europeans are used to losing out, and actually prefer it?

Not sure why a US only company would try to comply or do anything; the eu cannot force or fine them so why not just leave the site open?

The European Union is a huge market. If Google or Apple doesn't comply then they say goodbye to those profits.

EU said, "Do this or you can't do business in our countries." These websites said, "Ok" and didn't do business in those countries. Maybe kind of annoying, but this is explicitly the price you pay for more privacy.

Hey, man, that's totally fine that you don't want those services.Which is why those services are responding by blocking all EU customers.Seems like a win win for everyone. Businesses don't have to deal with ounerous laws, and EU citizens don't get to use those services.

Not all business models are legal. If the companies don't want to abide by the rules of the EU, they can opt not provide services to people in the EU.

Depends on your service. Something like Wechat could pretty easily decide to just not service the EU. It would be a much tougher choice for someone like Google or Amazon.

Generally, no. It's more about (for example) selling ads to EU companies. The narrative is about EU users but the leverage is via the EU advertisement business.

The problem is ads. Many networks track their users, and the site is responsible for that too. Eliminating all ads means the EU users become only a cost.They need to integrate GDPR-compliant ad networks to serve to EU users, and they probably didn't do the work.

Sure, but large portions of the internet do it this way. They'd just stop serving EU users if it comes down to it.