These laws are complicated, and all it would take is a small mistake for a smaller competitor to end up with a legal battle they can scarcely afford and a potentially massive fine.
Meanwhile, Google supported the GDPR and they've been fined tens of millions of euros multiple times for violating it. But to them it's chump change. They'll gladly pay >€200 million (and they have) to keep competition out.
How exactly? Is setting up the infrastructure for customers to be able to have their data axed at will really that cost prohibitive?
These laws are complicated, and all it would take is a small mistake for a smaller competitor to end up with a legal battle they can scarcely afford and a potentially massive fine.
Meanwhile, Google supported the GDPR and they've been fined tens of millions of euros multiple times for violating it. But to them it's chump change. They'll gladly pay >€200 million (and they have) to keep competition out.
There's no proportionality to this system.