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DuckDuckGo is a single company operating in a single vertical and their entire purpose was to provide a certain type of privacy-preserving service.

The vast majority of companies aren't violating privacy in any meaningful way, and the GDPR still imposes large costs on them.

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the second paragraph is just not true. every popular website without privacy as a selling point has dozens of trackers. journalism and social media have been tilted heavily towards clickbait because ads are perceived as the only way to make money. the only companies that will get to continue doing what they do without much hassle are widely liked services like netflix and spotify.

"meaningful"

The idea that every tracker and targeted ad is some sort of meaningful privacy violation is pretty silly.

As it turns out not everyone agrees with you. That doesn't make it silly, that makes it a difference of opinion.

And in any case, the point is that together all those little violations are a meaningful violation of your privacy.

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