I really don't understand how this is going to work in practice for small side projects with a single part-time developer. How are they supposed to afford implementing all these changes, none of which seem trivial or even practical for your standard little PHP site?
So if I run a forum as a side project, what are my options?
1) Spend all free time over the next few months adding these features and neglect any other work on the project.
2) Ignore the GDPR and hope nobody complains.
3) Shut down the side project.
Of course if you're Facebook or Twitter you just assign a few developers to this and you'll be fine. But I don't understand how this will not end up killing small-time web companies, or at least make them a lot less feasible to create.
I suspect many people will go for (2) and hope this fizzles out the same way the cookie law did.
So if I run a forum as a side project, what are my options?
1) Spend all free time over the next few months adding these features and neglect any other work on the project.
2) Ignore the GDPR and hope nobody complains.
3) Shut down the side project.
Of course if you're Facebook or Twitter you just assign a few developers to this and you'll be fine. But I don't understand how this will not end up killing small-time web companies, or at least make them a lot less feasible to create.
I suspect many people will go for (2) and hope this fizzles out the same way the cookie law did.