[tombone12]

That's a novel claim, usually security experts are always complaining that people just click "accept" and ignore all the warnings of broken crypto and all that. How foolish they will feel when they realize that all that was missing was putting "GDPR" in the popup and people will automatically stop ignoring warnings!

[downandout]

The difference is that before, they had to click accept in order to receive whatever service they were trying to obtain. Now they don't. Also, the sheer number of consent dialogs they will encounter will rise exponentially.

[erichocean]

> The difference is that before, they had to click accept in order to receive whatever service they were trying to obtain. Now they don't.

This doesn't receive nearly enough attention.

[zerostar07]

all it takes is a celebrity tweet to tell them to click "decline" and it becomes a meme.