Post #3284914

2026-06-10 13:38 UTC

Nah, it's like how they fined them hundreds of millions of euros because it was 2 clicks on YouTube to block cookies (the law required 1 click). The result was that EU visitors to YouTube got 1 click "deny all" button for cookies. Else they'd be fined over-and-over. The same will happen here. Google will remove AI summaries in Germany. And the German people will be less stupid because of it. Hopefully this spreads to the whole EU, and then other progressive countries too

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@luciferofastora@feddit.org 2026-06-10 20:23

> And the German people will be less stupid because of it. We'll need a lot lore than that to save us, but it's a start

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@DandomRude@lemmy.world 2026-06-10 13:54

I don’t think this can be handled as easily as with cookies or third-party connections that require consent, because Google apparently plans to eventually replace the traditional search engine results pages (SERPs) entirely with an AI chat interface. In that case, they would have to offer a completely different product just for Germany, or leave this market altogether. Neither option is likely to be viable for Google. Setting up the AI chat so that it doesn’t provide dangerous answers is, in my opinion, also out of the question, since this can never be guaranteed due to the way LLMs work.

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