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by closeparen 218 days ago
You could simply ban targeted advertising, since that's what everyone is actually upset about, and not create insane collateral damage for non-adtech operators who happen to have network services and databases.
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Everyone is upset about that except the people clicking on it, which seems to be a lot of people given the amount of revenue and how much people will bid for placement.

So it's not everyone, is it even most people? I'm not sure.

I do feel for you if you happen to live in the EU, but you get what you vote for. I don't live there, none of my businesses operate there, so I'm free to ignore it. The GDPR ends where the EU does, and cross-border enforcement of laws requires a bilateral agreement, that I would have to vote for.

I think there are many people who are fine with targeted advertising and also fine leading a private life in non-GDPR jurisdictions. I think that covers most people in the world.

Given the amount of ad-revenue services I get access to, it's a very good tradeoff for me, please don't kill it, and if you do kill it, stick to your own jurisdiction please.