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I love this approach pushing every advertiser and publisher into spit bucket.

An analogy here would be someone hating cars' tag readers in public. Law gets passed its illegal, yay! Then 2 months later your car payment goes up 30% and you scratching your head. Yeah well since they couldn't recover enough cars from people who don't pay, they had to adjust their financial models and you are the one to pony up for it.

GDPR will wipe out many niche blogs that make few hundred bucks a month top and - as this article clearly points out - will ironically help companies like Google to make more money and jack up pricing for remaining ads, as the whole ad network will get much thinner.

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If I'm completely honest, I wish the marketing and advertising industries would simply die off completely. I don't need businesses to tell me what I "need" to buy, in order to feel fulfilled.

>"An analogy here would be someone hating cars' tag readers in public. Law gets passed its illegal, yay! Then 2 months later your car payment goes up 30% and you scratching your head. Yeah well since they couldn't recover enough cars from people who don't pay, they had to adjust their financial models and you are the one to pony up for it."

Maybe they should have shown some responsibility, and not just pushed unrealistic loans on every Joe Six-pack who walks through the door.

Also, this culture of instant gratification that advertisers and money lenders have created is truly vicious. It has become culturally accepted to just take another loan to buy stuff you "need" (read: desire, to one-up your peers), never mind the consequences.

Try saving up instead or (shock and horror!) simply doing without the trivial material possession in question. You'll be tired of it in a short while anyway.

>"GDPR will wipe out many niche blogs"

That is purely unfounded speculation on your part.

>>"GDPR will wipe out many niche blogs" >That is purely unfounded speculation on your part.

It's speculation but not unfounded. GDPR will absolutely reduce small publisher revenue significantly, so making the leap that it causes a culling is rational.

Only for "niche blogs" that are relied on to generate ad revenue.

I don't know how many those are.

Most blogs I see seem to be run as a labour of love or for content marketing. Anyway, nobody expects to make money directly off the blog.

> GDPR will wipe out many niche blogs

To the contrary, niche blogs can place content-based banner ads for their audience without targetted advertising because they're much more focussed.

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