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by tpxl 1330 days ago
> Basically, GDPR kneecapped the entire business model of everyone but Wikipedia

GDPR did no such thing. There are thousands, if not millions, of businesses operating online that _actually sell goods and services for money_ and GDPR did nothing to stop those.

On top of all that, you can still show ads while being GDPR compliant. Just not slurp-every-piece-of-data type ads.