[mindslight]

No, it's not weird at all. They're each just an outcome of two different regulatory philosophies about how to protect users. We might want both because we're coming from an individualist hacker mindset, and thus see them as similar issues. But this is not how regulatory environments work (unfortunately).

From what I can surmise, the German/EU philosophy is more of a closed world approach - accepting that companies will keep control, then government regulates the companies to stop the companies-with-control from causing harm. If you don't like the harm, your recourse-focus is to petition the government to stop it (eg GDPR). Whereas the US philosophy is more open world - once someone "chooses" to patronize a company, then the company is free to do whatever they want. Your recourse-focus is to stop using that company.

They both have shortcomings and glaring loopholes, of course.