This is exceedingly petty even considering that the GDPR as a whole is a tool to subject US tech firms to a degree of scrutiny and control that would suffocate

This is exceedingly petty even considering that the GDPR as a whole is a tool to subject US tech firms to a degree of scrutiny and control that would suffocate other industries and extract the occasional payout. No one benefits from this, they just get shitty UX.