Perhaps at least some of the blame should be borne by your government and what some (clearly) view as onerous, economically nonviable, misinformed, and poorly executed regulations?
> economically nonviable,
Please remember: Google was a massive success long before they started tracking people all over the web.
This isn't about being economically viable. This is to spite people because they are not content with not being able to squeeze the last few cents out each of us.
I am pro-privacy, and generally agree with well designed and targetted regulations. There should be provisions for making it easy for GDPR compliance for the little guy. There are none.
This is a complete misunderstanding of GDPR, which carves out common-sense limitations for exactly this sort of scenario.
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
> Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary... for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject...
A criminal in the EU can't go issue a "right to be forgotten" request to the prison system, for example. They have a legitimate reason to decline it.