> not only didn't accomplish its aims of either reducing the amount of data collected or making users aware of data collection, it made the act of using the we

> not only didn't accomplish its aims of either reducing the amount of data collected or making users aware of data collection, it made the act of using the web worse. It made the web worse because companies decided that making it worse was better than changing their business model. But it did reduce the amount of data collected. > You always have to write laws assuming that those negatively effected will be bad actors that will try to subvert the law. But they did. But EU was lobbied into being too business friendly, and relied on nudging them into better behavior instead of forcing them, and the businesses said “no way, we'd rather fuck up our website”. There's no way the European Commission could have convinced the member states to accept a law that would be too detrimental to business interest. When discussing a law, you must always take into account the political forces that drives it adoption process.