Watch out, the shills are out in force today. There’s a lot of money in personalized ads and many people here bring home the bacon due to tracking, so GDPR is

Watch out, the shills are out in force today. There’s a lot of money in personalized ads and many people here bring home the bacon due to tracking, so GDPR is threatening their future. It’s amazing to witness. I mean, several years back I was naive enough to think that the smart people of HN are above such hypocrisy. How wrong I was. I have been involved btw in implementing GDPR compliance. The companies facing difficulties are those that were irresponsible with user data to begin with. And indeed GDPR is a threat to their business model if they don’t change. Which is good – if GDPR wouldn’t be a threat to the business model of irresponsible companies, then it wouldn’t be relevant at all. Also that line about big companies being the only ones capable of implementing GDPR is ridiculous payed marketing via tainted publications like TechCrunch and it’s catching on apparently. But yes, it’s about time companies show some responsibility for it. Because if your whole business model relies on the ignorance of users, you’re doing something nefarious.