That's great. I don't want my information stored, analyzed, cross-referenced and re-sold around without me knowing what's going on.
Oddly enough, you're frustrated about "degraded UX", but for several years now - UX has been terrible with annoying popups asking you for your email, advertisement-ridden websites that attracts traffic via well-crafted titles while the content is something to be desired...
Don't be a peon. But if you decide you want to be one, think about your other fellow humans - maybe they don't want to be peons.
Your information is still “stored, analyzed, cross-referenced and re-sold” and even though the GDPR doesn’t stop that, you feel better because you “know that’s going on”.
I don’t get it. Have you ever been materially harmed by businesses storing, analyzing, or reselling information regulated by the GDPR?
Oddly enough, you're frustrated about "degraded UX", but for several years now - UX has been terrible with annoying popups asking you for your email, advertisement-ridden websites that attracts traffic via well-crafted titles while the content is something to be desired...
Don't be a peon. But if you decide you want to be one, think about your other fellow humans - maybe they don't want to be peons.