I dunno, we're six months into this now, and all I see as a result is a lot of fussing, a lot more cookie popups, and a meaningless sidechannel on comments for every side project or US local newspaper article posted here about how they haven't bothered with GDPR compliance and are somehow evil for using google analytics cookies without telling people.

Yep, it's awesome. Hopefully that will continue until sites adapt or die. You get an instant indication that you can't trust a site with anything of value.

Also the changes in the industry are huge. Just because some sites have a hard time grasping the idea that the user isn't the enemy doesn't retract from the massive success that it is despite it being so new.

Just one example is the many places where you suddenly are able to downloading your data as well as delete it.