This is exactly why this kind of marketing would never work for me. It’s why even if I lived in the EU, I would still refuse to use Google products because I don’t trust them, even if they’re technically bound by law to care more about protecting my data.

Even beyond just the boycotting brands for political reasons, so many of the mainstream brands charge way too much for a product that almost anybody else can make the equivalent of.

I really hope they are able to do something meaningful that helps build trust with there poeple.

I would love to see them try to snatch a foreign government official.

I would feel though that Europe has a lot more of a chance then America at being able to make an alternative.

I would love to see an open standard for transactions that can come with the same protections or similar that you can get with credit cards for fraud.

But the real question is how many of these tools are open source. I don’t want to see Europe just recreate the American tech industry. What we need is open source tools that either companies can host or that a few different small to medium cloud providers can host.