It seems impossible to find on Google but I know I remember reading that they refused to operate under Chinese law, so weren't allowed to operate there. IIRC something about them refusing to store Chinese data in China?

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    That may have been the reason then, but now Chinese privacy laws are strict enough that Google's main revenue stream (selling user data) would be essentially non-existent.