I'm from Spain and I've been running a webdev shop for 6 years now.

Things are getting worse here and the government if anything is actually just making things more difficult for everyone.

I agree with those trying to protect their privacy but for the sake of practicality they should look for a pragmatic approach.

BTW, making individuals and companies responsible for tracking cookies installed by third party platforms like Facebook, Tumblr, etc. because of this law doesn't really help us being more competitive either [sarcasm sign].