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by Zanfa 964 days ago
> NOYB is fighting the good fight, and without it GDPR would be even more useless. But it's a losing battle, and NYOB itself is sort of admitting that. https://noyb.eu/en/statement-4-years-gdpr

I'm not sure how much of this is attributable to NOYB, but over the last year or two, years there's been a significant uptick in the number of "Reject All" buttons showing up and I have a hard time believing companies are putting those there out of goodwill.

> GDPR is in theory a good law (although things like mandatory honoring of do-not-track headers should have been obviously included). But it's not being enforced almost at all probably due to regulatory agencies and EU being corrupt AF.

Agree with the missed opportunity of DNT headers being included in the law, but enforcing EU rules is always tricky. At the end of the day, it's 27 different countries, each with conflicting interests. With GDPR in particular, I believe one of the issues is that it's enforced in the country of incorporation, so another country can hold up the enforcement process if their data protection agency is slow, no matter whether due to corruption or incompetence.

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When it comes to things that (big) business doesn't like - e.g. GDPR, tax evasion, antitrust, consumer rights, rule of law - enforcement is somehow always so so difficult. And when it comes to stuff like enforcing copyrights, patents, trade agreements and forced privatizations the enforcement works fine and dandy. GDPR enforcement was designed like it is and it was well known that it will be like this.

My take is that the corruption is not only a national matter, like europhiliacs and the EU's huge PR-propaganda machinery like to explain it. EU was set up as an antidemocratic organization for business interests and seems to remain so. The endless lobbying billions work.

> I'm not sure how much of this is attributable to NOYB, but over the last year or two, years there's been a significant uptick in the number of "Reject All" buttons

They filled over 500 complaints for that alone.

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-aims-end-cookie-banner-terror-and-is...

> Nevertheless, noyb will give companies a one-month grace period to comply with EU laws before filing the formal complaint.

They sent draft complaints to the companies. Not sure how many they sent to authorities. But nevertheless it may have had an effect.