I think all this GDPR bullshit is just nonsense. The more acts like that we get, the worse for real users, and especially developers it will be. Just think abou

I think all this GDPR bullshit is just nonsense. The more acts like that we get, the worse for real users, and especially developers it will be. Just think about it for a second. Large companies have large departments full of lawyers responsible just for that kind of thing. Yes, they might be resistant to change, but if they're forced to change, they will either change or figure out a way to not change while still staying compliant. Law is usually full of loopholes and the bigger you are, the easier it is for you to abuse them. The more law restricting what tech companies can or can't do we get, the harder it will be to create a startup. Imagine being a twenty-something biologist and creating a startup that's going to sell some medicines you created in the garage because your grandma is sick and she can't afford the ones on the market. The idea just sounds ridiculous. The number of certifications, clinical trials, approvals and other regulatory hurdles you need to overcome is just too high for someone without a full fledged legal department. I think the same thing will happen in tech, eventually. There will be no more startups made by two roommates at college who have just thought about some revolutionary idea. If someone even tries, they will instantly shut him down for not complyying with this or that regulation in some foreign country he hasn't even visited. Wise founders might try to find a lawyer or two and make their startup compliant with one country's laws and then do georestrictions. Big companies, with their legal departments, however, will be able to navigate that tangled mess much more easily. As a result, we will get big companies tracking us anyway and no way for small startups to rival them, much slower progress in countries with overly paranoid privacy regulations, which will cause economic development of such countries to be slower, and a worse quality of life for citizens in general.