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this looks like a classic "flame bait" comment.

> Collecting and selling digital data is not a legitimate business enterprise.

a whole international industry, legislators across the planet, entrepreneurs, employees, voters, users and clients disagree.

> If no one wants to pay for your product

who doesn't want to pay for the product?




> a whole international industry, legislators across the planet, entrepreneurs, employees, voters, users and clients disagree.

It's not like the GDPR was one guy's idea that got formalized into law overnight. It's has its roots in existing data protection legislation that is decades old as well as previous, failed attempts (ePrivacy directive aka cookie law), so there's equally a significant number of people who disagree with nonconsensual data collection.




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