This is what happens when you rely on American tech companies. Apple is pulling shit with Europe, the home of “civilisation”, that feels like it’s straight out of a stupid reality show over regulations regarding sideloading and privacy. And clowns like this will regurgigate the dumbest and the most worn-out libertarian shit in first tier media outlets.

Tbh I don’t get the point behind GDPR. Is it genuinely meant to ensure privacy to some extent or is it just some form of protectionism against American tech companies?

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    Europe doesn’t even have its own version of GPS which makes it dependent on tech that essentially belongs to the US military.

    Europe does have Galileo actually.

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        You, when you’re looking at Google Maps or whatever other mapping software you use. They’ve all been compatible with Galileo, Glossnas, Beidou, and GPS for many years. But a mapping app tends to not tell the user which brand of satellite they’re using at any given time.

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        Pretty much everyone with a smartphone I believe. They say that in 2019 there were 1 billion compatible smartphone.

        The navigation system used by the phone is transparent to the user, so of course we dont notice it, but it’s up there and we’re using it.

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          I see. Thank you for pointing this out, i was under the impression that Europe still mostly relied on GPS. Shows my age i guess.