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Plus it knocked a lot of potential competitors off the internet. I know multiple young startups and entrepreneurs in Europe that killed their projects/ideas because the additional burden of coping with GDPR was too much for them.
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Really? Because I haven’t heard of any, and I live and work here. Any sources?
They are young single founders in the idea or mvc stage. So nobody that is mentioned by any sources.
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That's also fine - was their content worth your privacy? If they can't be GDPR compliant we don't want them.
> was their content worth your privacy? What privacy was I losing?
Anyway, I'm also blocked on those sites but the same news on LA Times and Fox appear on countless other sites. I'm not losing anything, they're not wasting power and bandwidth for a freeloader. Win/win.
But that doesn't even enter into the tech industry zeitgeist, where commentators are enthralled by the bloodsport between corporate champions and the lives lived by actual humans are incidental and inconsequential.
Offtopic: am I the only one to see the optical illusion of the 0% line bendin upwards to the left in the "change in the number of trackers per page, by category, EU vs US"? [1] [1] deep link: https://static.cliqz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/trackers...
If I read that graph correctly the number of trackers per page has gone UP 20% since April in some categories for US visitors.
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Really? Because I haven’t heard of any, and I live and work here. Any sources?
They are young single founders in the idea or mvc stage. So nobody that is mentioned by any sources.
Plus it knocked a lot of potential competitors off the internet. I know multiple young startups and entrepreneurs in Europe that killed their projects/ideas because the additional burden of coping with GDPR was too much for them.
Why would they give up specifically because of GDPR? It just makes no sense, there's thousands of regulations already on all the parts of the day-to-day life of running a business, I wonder how they planned to manage the rest of them.
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That's also fine - was their content worth your privacy? If they can't be GDPR compliant we don't want them.
Maybe you don’t but can you speak for everyone? The poster seemed to think that was undesirable.
Über-fucking-raschung. Regulation is beneficial to big companies.