How were data hoarders like Google and Facebook hurt? They now just gate their EU service behind an accept button. Will people stop using the service after reading what data is collected? No
They will go after you the moment you become bigger and if you are person running a business one of your hopes is that you won't remain small time forever
Haha data export page, what even is that? Let me just go to my SQL DB, redis, glacier backups, and Kafka logs and just click the data export button. It will only take 3 minutes.
If you make money from EU users and are US based you need to be GDPR compliant or they will target you through payment processors and ad networks.
If you don't make money from EU users and don't want to be GDPR compliant you should probably just shut them off if you ever want to operate in the EU in the future
Everyone was saying that you don't need to worry about GDPR unless you are a scumbag that is selling user information. This open source project owner must have been doing something unethical if they are shutting down their forum due to GDPR. </s>
I'm glad you are feeling such rightous indignation. I won't lie and tell you that I am not being entertained by watching the EU internet implode on itself.