Has GDPR improved data protection and privacy in Europe?

Interesting - i was in this topic for a quite a long time. Also created public repository made by lawyers for free privacy requests -> https://github.com/good-lly/gdpr-documents

From my perspective companies have a very very long time to prepare and I didnt find a single one that reply to my GDPR data access request in correct time with proper answers.

It is not about changing browser habbits or not giving a cookie consent. It is about practicing your rights - but it is still very time and energy consuming ...

I've posted this article because it highlights an obvious fact: the cookie law has dramatically worsened the user experience. As much as I am against dark patterns, punishing companies or providers for implementing them is just pointless. The GDPR rules have been designed by incompetents bureaucrats, mostly lawyers who know nothing about design. The result is a mess. The cookie consent banner per se is worst than a dark pattern. Privacy should be controlled at a browser settings level, and it's incomprehensible to me how they could come up with the idea of doing it at a website-per-website level. Pure incompetence.