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I don't want it to end up in annoying dialog boxes and degraded UX on every website like it currently is in Europe.

That's great. I don't want my information stored, analyzed, cross-referenced and re-sold around without me knowing what's going on.

Oddly enough, you're frustrated about "degraded UX", but for several years now - UX has been terrible with annoying popups asking you for your email, advertisement-ridden websites that attracts traffic via well-crafted titles while the content is something to be desired...

Don't be a peon. But if you decide you want to be one, think about your other fellow humans - maybe they don't want to be peons.

Your information is still “stored, analyzed, cross-referenced and re-sold” and even though the GDPR doesn’t stop that, you feel better because you “know that’s going on”.

I don’t get it. Have you ever been materially harmed by businesses storing, analyzing, or reselling information regulated by the GDPR?

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