It's no big deal because not everyone in here is in B2C marketplace. I have SaaS services aimed at businesses. I don't give a damn about GDPR. It mostly doesn't affect me. On the other hand as a EU citizen I wholeheartedly welcome it. Sure, it's a draconian law and given time it will get polished but let's just face reality. Online advertising and whatnot has gotten out of hand. You visit any given site and it loads two dozen trackers. Facebook tracks you even if you don't have a profile on them. Google collects shitloads of personal information and none knows what they're doing with it exactly.
Back in the days we used to say that the Internet self-regulates. Well guess what, that's not happening anymore. Companies like FB or Google are actually breaking the web as we know it because they exploit our trust. If GDPR means that their business model will break then so be it. I have huge appreciation for Google, and none for FB, but enough is enough. And they're just the low hanging fruits. There are countless other companies out there working in unethical ways. If anyone's business model is to invade user's privacy then fuck off and die. That's not entrepreneurship, that's greed and a total disregard for human rights.
And by the way, we're not just professionals. We're also users.
Back in the days we used to say that the Internet self-regulates. Well guess what, that's not happening anymore. Companies like FB or Google are actually breaking the web as we know it because they exploit our trust. If GDPR means that their business model will break then so be it. I have huge appreciation for Google, and none for FB, but enough is enough. And they're just the low hanging fruits. There are countless other companies out there working in unethical ways. If anyone's business model is to invade user's privacy then fuck off and die. That's not entrepreneurship, that's greed and a total disregard for human rights.
And by the way, we're not just professionals. We're also users.