[zaroth]

I can’t agree more. The popups are insanely stupid, frustrating, and a usability and design disaster. I would adamantly oppose any US regulation that could lead to something similar here.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg of the problems with GDPR. Watch as the enforcement side becomes selectively weaponized as a political tool against unpopular sites and the other shoe will have dropped.

GDPR is a regulatory bandaid to a technical problem. That geeks are calling for more regulation to fix their own failings to design privacy resilient network protocols and decentralized software which truly and actually puts users in control of their own data, is shameful.

It’s a common trope that users don’t care enough to seek out and use privacy enhancing and protecting solutions. I think that’s a load of crap. The current solutions are alpha quality and are not ready for general use. But the technology will improve and I am convinced they will destroy the competition when they get there.