> People who run websites really should know what they're doing, at least in broad strokes. You can't just change a law and start issuing fines as if everybody

> People who run websites really should know what they're doing, at least in broad strokes. You can't just change a law and start issuing fines as if everybody was a criminal. You need to allow time for people to adapt, especially the guy who set up his personal site, installed Google Analytics because everybody used to do that, and forgot about it. > Regarding Adwords, maybe the EU could've just mandated Google to serve ads based only on the web page and not on the visitor? That would've allowed websites to continue with minimal disruption. That would be a ban of targeted ads, which I'm all for, but it's not what GDPR is about.