On the one hand, I'm glad that organizations like noyb exist. On the other, it's a testament to the failure of enforcing privacy regulations, where we need to have organizations hunt down flagrant perpetrators. It would be akin to relying on vigilante groups to enforce common laws, instead of having federal law enforcement agencies.

I assure you that if we didn't have these closed ecosystems, we would have more secure software. Data exfiltration is a security issue, perhaps even the most significant one. All the theatre we do with signing software was better implemented in your average software repository all linux distributions come with.

Failing to see the larger picture people wanted these enclaves. An no, even Apple wants to make their environment attractive and that means appeasing advertisers.

Overall the behavior of legitimate software in a PC or Mac environment is just far better, it isn't even a competition.

Agreed.

All they had to do was to legislate a statutory amount someone could claim in case of a privacy violation and the problems would've disappeared overnight by companies set up to litigate on behalf of consumers in exchange for a cut.

And we would be one step closer to US.

the fact that in the U.S you can sue larger and more powerful organizations for their having harmed you is a clear benefit in comparison to some European systems (the way this works can vary between land).

In Denmark and I assume in Norway if you have been harmed by a governmental organization you have to complain and spend lots of time to deal with the problem and in the end get nothing for the time, you get a worthless apology and change of policy for what harmed you in the first place, and then wasted years, and nothing is done to right the hurt or damage you suffered.

Better the American way as an opportunity, however limited, to make the powerful suffer in kind.

Would it be bad in this case? We have a chronic problem of lack of GDPR enforcement and it's clear regulators are underfunded/incompetent/overwhelmed/not interested in doing their job.

If the regulators can't, let someone else do the job.