The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on Online Tracking · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2411.06862/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTThe Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on Online Tracking — mentioned by dmixhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781066urn:hackerpapers:mention:2411.06862:49781066Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:06:49 GMT<p>The adtech/data broker business is still very lively in EU. The last time I read into it a year or two ago the consensus seemed to be the privacy gains over the last decade have been modest at best. There was a few big name trackers that were forced to narrow data collection but the general ad/location tracking and data broker business is still mostly the same. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06862 https://netzpolitik.org/2025/databroker-files-targeting-the-...</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2411.06862/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>econ.GN