The Brussels Effect takes care of a lot of hardware changes for the better, for the world (think USB-C).

But for software, not so much.

Examples:

* Windows N (no media player stuff) and KN (no media player stuff, no messenger)

* Windows installed in the EEA (ability to disable / change start menu search with Bing, ability to remove Edge, ability to add widget providers)

* iOS with only allowing 3rd party app stores and 3rd party browser engines in the EEA.

* Google only allowing certain things when the phone is in the USA.

And it's gonna get worse with age verification. All of the sudden the manufacturers have even more data.