Oh yep, I mixed up rev. ans profit. Still though, that doesn't change anything I've said so far. It is still effectively chump change that can be recuperated in a short amount of time. Also, which one specific company got fined 3bln?

European software is still better for the european consumer on privacy because of europe’s better privacy laws

This literally just boils down to "European is better for the European because it's European", if you've read any of these you'd get why:

• EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers
• The EU Funds Surveillance Around the World: Here's What Must be Done About it
• AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare
• Investigation of the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware
• 20 biggest GDPR fines so far [2024] (the fines in question are negligible, and only serve to line the pockets of the rich)
• Female health apps aren’t doing enough to protect sensitive data, study says

The EU does not shy away from being terrible in terms of privacy, in fact it is far from being any semblance of "good" privacy, they just do a good job of keeping it hush-hush.

GAFAM have been basically allowed to operate carefree within EU jurisdiction because GDPR only serves to benefit capital and those with capital already. It's been 10 years since it's been introduced and not a single GAFAM company has been stopped by the EU. Every single OEM Android phone ships with Google Play Services, an Android OEM flavor that is not open-source and auditable and sometimes comes with GAFAM preinstalled.

Laptops and computers ship to the EU with Windows, a privacy nightmare, that's been allowed to exist and fester the consumer market for decades, even well into the introduction of GDPR.

Schools, offices, etc... throughout Europe still largely depend on closed-source software like G Suite and/or Microsoft Office, Figma, Notion, etc.. The European alternatives, save for LibreOffice which doesn't see widespread adoption outside of maybe a few cities in Germany, are all closed-source bs.

The "efforts" that have been made so far like Fairphone, Sailfish, etc.. have all been small-scale and underfunded compared to the amount spent on everything else, e.g. military.

Point is, so long as the Euros are at the US' behest, EuroKKKrakers are not serious about privacy and security, and never will be, so they resort to random ass nationalist appeals that only quiets down when a Democrat takes office. So long as their own software are closed-source BS even if it has the word "privacy" plastered all over the landing page, it should not ever be called "private" or "secure".