> Can you tell me how GDPR has improved European lives over say a New Yorker? My spam disappeared overnight. There was a flood of "click here to give consent"

> Can you tell me how GDPR has improved European lives over say a New Yorker? My spam disappeared overnight. There was a flood of "click here to give consent" emails a little before GDPR came into force, and then radio silence. I now only get the low-effort botnet viagra emails that are trivial to identify and catch, and even their amount has dwindled to only 5 this month. I guess most of them fail SPF/DKIM/etc tests and don't get delivered at all. Same with snail mail. I used to get a pretty large pile of all kinds of ads every week, now I get only invoices, official notices and postcards from friends. In online services like Youtube, I don't have to click through menus to opt-out of tracking anymore. There's now an equally visible opt-out button on the consent dialog. When I visit sites like USA Today, I get a much nicer version without tracking, ads and auto-playing videos: https://i.imgur.com/YQXaavw.jpg https://i.imgur.com/YQXaavw.jpg