Okay, and why do you need to share whatever info you collect with thousands of random data "partners" if it's just for you to keep track of whatever made up thing you say you need to track? Because in reality that's what GDPR exposed, that random ecomm website selling socks or whatever is sharing everything they know about you with a billion random companies for some unknowable reason.

I'm convinced there's a psyop on this site when it comes to GDPR, and I'm only half-joking. If people would bother to read those intrusive banners, they'd notice that their info is being harvested and shared with hundreds, even thousands of "partners". In what universe is this something we should be okay with? Why exactly does some random ecommerce site need to harvest my data and share it with a bajillion "partners" of theirs? Why are we okay with that?

I hate that the psychotic data harvesting assholes behind all these dark patterns emerged victorious by just straight up lying to people and deluding them into thinking GDPR was the issue, and not them and their shitty dark pattern banners

I keep hearing this argument that it stifles small businesses, but how is that exactly? I've worked for a variety of small startups in NL and GDPR has never, not once, been a real issue or blocker.

Yes, it forced these small businesses to think about how they're handling personal data, but that should be the fucking point, I don't care if a company is Facebook or if it's a 2 person startup, neither should be collecting and redistributing personal data and tracking people.

Sidenote, why is it always booking a plane ticket that they hype up? It's like the only 2 things any of the marketing can think of is booking plane tickets and replying to emails