The European Union is, once again, attempting to dictate global policy way outside their jurisdiction. I run uBlock Origin and Ghostery (you should too!), which already deals with the things GDPR was largely concerned with. The GDPR made the average web browsing experience worse, not better. The Digital Services Act (DSA) expands upon GDPR in a way that supposedly targets very large companies but, digging into it, it actually appears to affect businesses of all sizes. Let's say you run a small business and you have a website. That website has a domain (DNS) that is issued by a registrar (e.g. GoDaddy, NameCheap, etc.) and is hosted on a third party service (e.g. a VPS provider like AWS, DigitalOcean, OVH, etc. or a shared hosting provider like 1&1, GoDaddy, etc.) and then speeds up global content delivery of static assets via a CDN (e.g. CloudFlare). If you are a website developer/admin, all of this sounds perfectly normal and completely innocuous to you. Now let's
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