Personally, I can see only two parties benefiting from this: the plaintiff and lawyers in general. Google will continue to be Google. Users will be faced with

Personally, I can see only two parties benefiting from this: the plaintiff and lawyers in general. Google will continue to be Google. Users will be faced with more annoying consent notices that they don't read. Website developers, of which I am one (bias disclosure), who are not very good lawyers will have more technical complexity in order to respect the law. Small companies who rely on services such as CDNs and font providers are now worried about having to host things themselves and the complexity that will ensue to be GDPR compliant (everyone's new least-favourite term). Hacker News gets a divisive flamewar over the subject and this will be yeeted from the front page.