Plus it knocked a lot of potential competitors off the internet.
I know multiple young startups and entrepreneurs in Europe that killed their projects/ideas because the additional burden of coping with GDPR was too much for them.
I know multiple young startups and entrepreneurs in Europe that killed their projects/ideas because the additional burden of coping with GDPR was too much for them.
It's like complaining about how new credit card businesses or banks can't just start up but need a load of compliancy. That was tried with cryptocurrencies and billions of user's monies was lost due to poor security and scummy companies.
Seriously. Besides that one blogger who was screaming because he didn't even want to bother with the help wordpress provided, I did not hear of a single person/company that quit because of that.
It would also be quite embarrassing considering the time you had to prepare, the help that is all over now or the fact that nobody seems to enforce it. Especially for businesses.
First hit from a google search for “GDPR shut down”.
Dodged a bullet here.
- history.com forwards to their german page history.de as it always did
- Ragnarok Online is working: https://www.ragnarokeurope.com/?lang=de
- Klout sounds just as dirty as unroll
- Super Monday Night Combat is working https://www.uberent.com/smnc/
Sooo what's the problem again?
I get downvotes for FACTS? Seriously people?
Maybe you mostly have relations with startups that work in the ad industry?
The only way GDPR could kill a business in the conception stage is if the business model was to secretly collect user data and sell it for profit. A business that can't get started due to GDPR is a business that never deserved to exist.