— Gruber with a very US-centric take on EU regulation:
The European Commission expected that the GDPR would result in websites prioritizing the privacy of E.U. users — a better web in Europe than elsewhere. Instead, the result was increased user annoyance under a nonstop daily barrage of consent popovers — a worse web in Europe than elsewhere
So what’s the alternative? That we just get on with excessive data collection and user tracking practices from big tech? The Web was already in a bad state before GDPR. It’s not the European Union that ruin the Web, it is the practices by US American companies fuelled by insatiable greed. GDPR just surfaces how bad it is.