I’m glad to see a case made against anticompetitive lobbying. But I’m disappointed in the use of the GDPR as a straw man. There are many reasons that could exp

I’m glad to see a case made against anticompetitive lobbying. But I’m disappointed in the use of the GDPR as a straw man. There are many reasons that could explain why ad network market concentration increased after the GDPR took effect, and not all of them are bad. For example, if some significant percentage of companies depended on exploitative behavior outlawed by the law, we should expect to see concentration increase as those companies leave the market. That’s not a negative side effect; it’s the law working as intended.