[sgift]

The reason is that they are smaller and if you want to make an example to scare an industry into compliance it's better to go after big companies first. If Facebook gets dragged over the coals the smaller ones are next unless they adapt. This myth that only non-EU companies get pulled into court is nothing but propaganda, mostly spread by the poor, poor, US-based violators of privacy.

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ has a list of enforcement actions, and low and behold, most of them are against EU companies.

(The country filter is for the fining entity, not the fined entity, just in case anyone thinks this doesn't include US companies at all)

[jsnell]

> The reason is that they are smaller and if you want to make an example to scare an industry into compliance it's better to go after big companies first.

They've had like five years of large European media companies doing this. That was the time to make an example out of someone, not hope that some even bigger company comes along.

[yafbum]

I'm sure there's plenty of local enforcement, I'm just talking about my own cookie wall experience which is mostly happening when consuming Europe-based news outlets. I was really surprised to see that it was enabled by some national agencies which have explicitly okayed the cookie wall for such cases.