As a European start-up founder, I agree with this. The unintended consequences of the GDPR will be to (1) cement the power of Google and Facebook, since they have logged in consent (2) kill third party retargeting companies, ironically French company Criteo being one of the promient examples (3) generally make life harder for Euppean companies, and sharpen the incentive to ignore the EU market where possible.
As a user I do feel some privacy regulation is a good thing. There are certainly good things about GDPR (e.g. a lot of third party ad tracking deserves to die). However, I am far from convinced that the GDPR is the saviour some people think it is.
As a user I do feel some privacy regulation is a good thing. There are certainly good things about GDPR (e.g. a lot of third party ad tracking deserves to die). However, I am far from convinced that the GDPR is the saviour some people think it is.