it is pure HN that there's so many people commenting who

1) didn't bother to read the article

2) didn't bother to read any previous articles and so have continually spread nonsense about what the regulations actually required

3) defending all the companies that decided to be fuckwits with barrages of notices to users instead of actually sincerely trying to reduce their creepy nonsense and then - if anything was left that required disclosure - explained it honestly