They just randomly pick 2-3 trigger words to add to their headlines, don’t they?

Dammit. My AI needs work.

Systematically building electronics component inventory

Possible goal: self-hosting, possibly webshop. Possible future competition.

Concussion: nip in the bud.

Action: sending black ops team…

An email claiming you moved to the EU and went them to remove all your data.

Like many of my fellow lemmings, I already do most of what he suggests. But I also realise I only do it out of principle. I’m not hurting these companies. I’m not costing them anything. A visitor who rejects cookies may not help their bottom line, but that handful of extra page requests isn’t going to cost them a single red cent extra. A GDPR access request may make a smaller company scramble, but the larger ones have systems in place to handle it, and very probably completely automatically.

Sure, stop giving companies your data if you’re so inclined. Just realise it is more of an inconvenience for you than it is for them - even if it’s not really inconvenient for you, it’s even less so for them. Unless a significant portion of users starts doing it, it’s mostly symbolic.

Most people on the fediverse might not (although I have my doubts about that), but even among my fellow developers the majority use Google Chrome and Google search. Looking at my circle outside tech, it’s pretty much everyone.