You are saying that's a bad thing?
Services that require you to sign up, should provide the possibility for users to look at, modify and delete their user data - that's all. Where's the problem?
The problem is that there's no justification for having the right to coerce other people just because they have information you gave them. If users enter names into your website, you're not allowed to run a statistical analysis of what names are most common on your website without asking. If people named Jane are more likely to eat ice cream, you can't target ice cream ads at them and help keep your site free, without asking them. Worse than just this kind of coercion of what you're not allowed to do, users can coerce you into taking time out of your day to expunge records about them. It's all entirely backwards.
If forcing low-earning EU citizens off the internet because every website requires a subscription is a social good to you, then sure, it's a long term benefit.
Even if it would all be a net benefit, why is it ok for all of these companies to be so misleading about it. No one out a simple EULA, for what is happening with the data. Hell half the agreements just say that the companies can do whatever with the data, but an average person does not have the ability to parse the output of the legal teams of every company they interact with every day. The only way this could get even close to an equal footing between users and companies is if every single person was a lawyer
Apart from the fact that people named Jane aren't more likely to eat ice cream, you seem to criticize that it gets harder to target ads?
Oh no, that's a real pity. Oh no, poor webmasters.
Why are the rights of people who own websites less important to you than the rights of other people?
Regardless, you might not still be saying this once half the websites smaller than Google become subscription-based in the EU or just block the EU altogether.
What you're describing is a good thing. If you're going to treat my data like an almost stale slice of pie selling it off cheap to anyone who will buy it - Please do block my access!
They don't have that right. GDPR only applies to business. If you mean you wrote it in your house for some business reason then yeah they have the right to know you've done so and why and the right to ask you to remove it if you don't need to have that information.
In no situation do they have the right to come into your house. That's a touch too far into the absurd.
