i've caught a lot of heat in the UK where i live for my position on GDPR, which is that i completely reject it, because people seem to believe it's there to protect any rights

if there's anything remotely good with GDPR is the requirement to companies to disclose known data breaches

all the rest of it is a terrible idea and only serves to nag people and legitimise the darkest of patterns

the regulation should be there to disallow companies from asking certain information, everything else regarding tracking is self-defeating as it's 1) seldom enforceable 2) hardly binding in any meaningful way 3) pushing people to concentrate their services where they have already surrendered their data 4) legitimising of dark patterns

this new and blatant step towards digital id is a hill i intend to die on, I will not comply and I will do everything in my power so that others don't have to and are even punished for doing so

GDPR has very little to do with dark patterns, nag screens, or online tracking?

> "all the rest of it is a terrible idea"

Having a legal right to ask a company for a copy of all the data they have on you is terrible?

Having a right to ask a company to correct errors in data about you, or delete data about you, that's terrible?

A company having to tell you what they intend do with data about you and stick to it for the threat of a big fine, that's bad?