noyb

Because that's how laws work, they apply to everyone.

Then again what you say is a misrepresentation and biased idea, what proof do you have that GDPR will disproportionately impact small organizations ?

Have you read the actual annoucement posted here ? asking because it does not say that it is shutting down but that it is moving its community discussion from a self hosted discourse forum to a third party hosted subreddit because discourse lacks the ability to properly address GDPR request and lack of time to do so.

Of course GDPR also applies to FB, Google, etc. Have you followed the discussions 5 years ago when GDPR was in the making and witnessed the intense lobbying from silicon valley against strong protection ? Probably not.

Are you aware of the noyb.eu[1] initiative, Max Schrems again, currently targeting google, facebook, whatsapp and instagram for their "forced consent" (more to come) ? La Quadrature du Net a french internet rights organization is currently working on 12 class actions targeting google, facebook, amazon, apple and microsoft, etc.

[1]: https://noyb.eu/
[2]: https://gafam.laquadrature.net/

> Multi-billion dollar companies have GDPR-violating cookie banners, and nobody cares.

Not true. In fact, those banners are in general way more compliant than before due to the work of organisations like https://noyb.eu/. They have also successfully led numerous initiatives to fine those companies and fix non-compliance.

Usually at this point is when someone comes along to move the goalpost to “but those aren’t very affective”, or “but they still do it”. Sure, argue against malicious compliance and results all you want, I’m simply pointing out that it’s not true at all that “nobody cares”. Enough people care enough that entire organisations exist with that mission.

> In the case of blogs like this, they don't really care about compliance, it's just LARPing.

Maybe. If they don’t care, they can simply ignore my advice. If they do care, they can follow it. Either way, there is no situation in which my sharing of the law is negative.

Support https://noyb.eu ?

https://noyb.eu/en/our-detailed-concept

>noyb uses best practices from consumer rights groups, privacy activists, hackers, and legal tech initiatives and merges them into a stable European enforcement platform. Together with the many enforcement possibilities under the European data protection regulation (GDPR), noyb is able to submit privacy cases in a much more effective way than before. Additionally, noyb follows the idea of targeted and strategic litigation in order to strengthen your right to privacy. We will also make use of PR and media initiatives to emphasize and ensure your right to privacy without having to go before court. Ultimately, noyb is designed to join forces with existing organizations, resources and structures to maximize the impact of GDPR, while avoiding parallel structures.

For what is worth, I think Meta is lying about it, or at least playing the victim card too strongly.

> They’re demanding that Meta provide free full services without personalized ads or a monthly fee for users.

Meta is being sued because their paid plan is not honest - they are currently asking for 10€/month which is disproportionate - for comparison, a Business Standard Google Workspace account with 2Tb and Gemini costs 11€. From [1], "EU law requires that consent is the genuine free will of the user. Contrary to this law, Meta charges a 'privacy fee' of up to €250 per year if anyone dares to exercise their fundamental right to data protection".

[1] https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-gdpr-complaint-against-meta-over-pay-or-okay

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-43/

> Consent is presumed not to be freely given [..] if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance.

https://noyb.eu/en/pay-or-okay-explained-why-more-and-more-websites-make-you-pay-your-privacy

> the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) is working on a binding opinion on 'Pay or Consent', which will determine whether Europeans continue to have a realistic option to protect their privacy online. If the approach is legitimised for Meta, companies across all industries could follow suit - which would mark the end of genuine consent to the use of European's data.

Currently the adtech companies trying to rely on the legal basis of Consent - they get the user to explicitly agree to the processing required for targeted advertising with a popup advert.

There is a great NGO of lawyers called NOYB (None of Your Business) in Austria who has filed complaints with Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Android about the consent dialogs not being valid under GDPR.

The complaint PDFs are worth glancing through to see how disingenuous the adtech companies are in their attempts to appear to comply with consent, when I think anyone reasonable would agree they are not.

https://noyb.eu/

I'm curious as to the detail of Brave's complaint, which seems to add even more to this.