[not_kurt_godel]

What material harm or damage would you suffer if I snooped on all of your Internet browsing activity with the knowledge of who you are in real life and kept that information around forever to use for whatever purposes I so choose?

[simplecomplex]

Straw man. That’s not analogous to what was being discussed. A better analogy is: HN can see my email because I gave it to them to login. I don’t need to request what HN is doing with my email, because I already know I gave it to them. Giving them my email doesn’t harm me. Using it to do something illegal might, but the GDPR wouldn’t be able to stop that.

[not_kurt_godel]

You misunderstand how third-party cookies & tracking work. You also misunderstand the intent of the legislation if you think GDPR is about preventing 'illegal' things. It's about protecting individual citizens' sovereignty and privacy.