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As a European start-up founder, I agree with this. The unintended consequences of the GDPR will be to (1) cement the power of Google and Facebook, since they ha
by mgpc 9y ago
As a European start-up founder, I agree with this. The unintended consequences of the GDPR will be to (1) cement the power of Google and Facebook, since they have logged in consent (2) kill third party retargeting companies, ironically French company Criteo being one of the promient examples (3) generally make life harder for Euppean companies, and sharpen the incentive to ignore the EU market where possible.
As a user I do feel some privacy regulation is a good thing. There are certainly good things about GDPR (e.g. a lot of third party ad tracking deserves to die). However, I am far from convinced that the GDPR is the saviour some people think it is.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> (1) cement the power of Google and Facebook, since they have logged in consent I might be missing something, but won't they actually have to get your consent again, on everything, but this time in details and with option for you to refuse without service degradation? > (2) kill third party retargeting companies Good riddance. That would be the second most annoying ad technique today, after ads interrupting your video streaming.
- disgruntledphd2 9y agoSo, both Google and FB track people around the web, as do many web-retargeters. The web-retargeters have no reasonable way to get consent, but big G and F do, so it's likely that they will fill the gap in the advertising markets created by the lack of web-retargeters, thus increasing their power. That's my understanding of the point anyway.