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There are not enough lawyers or court capacity to take the entire www to court, and even if there were, there's no way to enforce injunctions or collect on judgments when websites are operated in different countries.

This is evidenced by the fact that the GDPR already made these actions illegal with huge penalties and it has had scarcely any effect. Most websites just ignore it completely as a "strange foreign law", including this one.




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