infinitismal8

They will go after you the moment you become bigger and if you are person running a business one of your hopes is that you won't remain small time forever

Haha data export page, what even is that? Let me just go to my SQL DB, redis, glacier backups, and Kafka logs and just click the data export button. It will only take 3 minutes.

If you make money from EU users and are US based you need to be GDPR compliant or they will target you through payment processors and ad networks.

If you don't make money from EU users and don't want to be GDPR compliant you should probably just shut them off if you ever want to operate in the EU in the future

Everyone was saying that you don't need to worry about GDPR unless you are a scumbag that is selling user information. This open source project owner must have been doing something unethical if they are shutting down their forum due to GDPR. </s>

You think GDPR is great but you are angry at an EU citizen using the law as intended?

It sounds like you didn't read the article.

>Find something that 1% of them would pay for,

That easy huh

You actually didn't respond to my question.

Reworded my question is, if Google can't make it work why do you think some random company that isn't Google can?

Your response is very emotional and if you aren't interested inc conversing with me civilly please don't.

If a venture is not profitable for Google why do you think it would be profitable for a bootstrapped EU competitor?