Over three months now since GDPR came into effect and, well, I'm loving it.
Explicit control over my data is really nice; as are how much faster some websites are when you disable all the shit they used to hoist on you.
@kimpegasus it's so funny seeing this from an American pov, it's like... LOOK. THIS IS WHAT THE EU WANTS. MINIMALISM. GROSS, ISN'T IT? I BET YOU'LL BE BEGGING FOR FIDDLY BITS ALL OVER YOUR SCREEN IN NO TIME.
and I'm like, yes, thank you, this is great. goodbye now, invisible hand of tracking and marketing.
It's funny to me when sites present things like this as "the worse" experience but… this is exactly how I've always wanted the site to present information to me. All content, no cruft.