> It was clear from the beginning. I don't remember anyone predicting that there would be an industry-wide effort to deliberately not comply with the rules, re

> It was clear from the beginning. I don't remember anyone predicting that there would be an industry-wide effort to deliberately not comply with the rules, relying on lax national enforcement, with companies choosing to make their own websites less nice to use just to (successfully) trick people into hating the legislation and not the surveillance practices that the legislation was designed to stop. That's proven to be a great strategy in hindsight, but I think that this Schelling point was only found by accident.