>. There's this pipe dream that GDPR would somehow jumpstart a privacy-focused digital economy with viable alternatives to US-based services I would like to se

>. There's this pipe dream that GDPR would somehow jumpstart a privacy-focused digital economy with viable alternatives to US-based services I would like to see this, but given the extremely shitty track record of European software projects (400 million Euro wasted on a search engine, just as an example), I can only agree that this is very unrealistic.