[renlo]

He was saying that Uber will no longer operate in NL/EU, the pining was for "equal access to US services", not your data. FWIW, I am annoyed myself about having to accept GDPR popups on every website I visit, so I too pine for a day where US companies have nothing to do with "EU citizens".

[stavros]

Right, but the reason EU citizens don't have equal access to US services is because EU citizens decided that the services they use need to be careful with the EU citizens' data. US services said "nah, that sounds too hard, I'm outta here" instead.

[jeltz]

What US services left? Only ones I know of are a couple of US centric newspapers. Virtually everyone stay in the EU market.

[jeltz]

Hahaha, that will not happen. And if Uber against all odds actually leaves some other company will swoop in and take their market. Personally I prefer Bolt over Uber for rides here in Sweden.

[ForHackernews]

Imagine how much poorer the world will be when one fewer jitney cab company operates in the Netherlands.