[s73v3r_]

"Only a tiny fraction of the companies avoiding EU traffic due to GDPR have any intention of “doing shady stuff with your data”."

Says who? If they weren't doing shady stuff, they wouldn't be pulling out of the EU. The excuses of being complex are just that, excuses.

[downandout]

Says who?

Says anyone with common sense. What percentage of sites do you think employ data scientists or would even know where to go to sell your data? Most sites do nothing more than throw GA on their website, and maybe some Adsense. You people decided to paint that as something evil.

That’s your decision to make, but just understand that most of the rest of the world wants no part of $20M potential fines and will simply take their ball and go home. This law will have the net effect of creating two Internets - one for the EU and one for the rest of us.

[eveningcoffee]

>Most sites do nothing more than throw GA on their website, and maybe some Adsense

That actually is a problem. GA is a clear violation of everyone privacy.

[s73v3r_]

"Says anyone with common sense."

Where "common sense" means "agrees with downandout, not the more traditional definition of "common sense".

[mort96]

Well, Instapaper is owned by Pinterest. Pinterest strikes me as a company of such a size that they'd have no problem finding some way to monetize the data gathered from their users.

[rcxdude]

Have you seen some of the lists of where your data goes that some sites have posted? It's frankly frightening how far your data gets dispersed after signing up for just one website.