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> Are you suggesting there's an anti-EU/anti-GDPR/anti-whatever campaign of sorts going on that makes people biased, or, more realistically, an intent to discredit GDPR by US advertisers who fight against similar legislation in the US?

I mean, in one sense, _obviously_. Most of the fearmongering around the GDPR comes from the ad industry (and to some extent from other impacted industries like the shadier parts of the debt collection industry, but they're much smaller and less noisy). I doubt there's an origanised conspiracy to discredit it as such, but most of the anti-GDPR talking points do ultimately come from the ad industry.

And this isn't that surprising, arguably. For most companies, the GDPR essentially means, at most, "your business model is fine, but your process is flawed; fix it". For large parts of the ad industry, it means "your business model is flawed; change it". Note that a lot of the ad industry complaints are around consent; either that it has to be asked for in the first place or that it's too hard to give accidentally. Well, yes, that's the point.