Highly relevant:
If I as an EU citizen want to remove as much as possible of whatever info data brokers etc might have of me before this (hypothetically) comes to pass, where do I begin? Are there any guides?
This thread may help you:
Iāve seen that but as far as I can tell most of the companies mentioned are US specific. I wonder if thereās a guide for Europeans as to who collects data on you and how to remove it.
Surely the people that sign in to google whether it be on their phones or PCās have agreed to the terms and conditions and in doing so given their consent. Same as with meta, yahoo, apple, MS etc, etc
But the vast vast majority do not understand the egregious nature of what they have unknowingly agreed to and the consequences of such consent. Thatās a problem too. Hence us spreading awareness of it.
But they are selling data of everyone, not only logged in users.
Thatās why its best to always access these services such that when you close your browser all your cookies and site data is deleted so they no longer can keep track of you as a user and make a shadow profile on you to target you in other ways. This means using a browser with strong anti-fingerprinting like Mullvad Browser. But you can also harden Brave and Firefox to more of less operate the same way for your everyday all use cases.
Hereās what I donāt understand though: is it actually necessary to remove ALL cookies? Or can I keep, say, a cookie that just keeps me logged in to a website I trust? Can it still be accessed by Google, Meta etc and fingerprint me?
Iām aware of that and that is the reason as to why I only use FOSS OSās and apps, donāt sign in to any device, and do everything practically possible to prevent any tracking or surveillance however, on here from my own experience, the vast majority seem to want it both ways in that they still want to run google software along with wotsapp etc, etc yet they still demand privacy. All seems a little duplicitous to me.
It depends on the kind of browsing experience and convenience you want. I personally am always logged into my Proton and Kagi accounts. But nothing else. So I have exceptions for this in my FF.
So, depending on how you want to go about it, you can keep yourself logged in select websites you want and/or trust.
These cookies should not be accessible by Google because Google did not place it there but depending on the website and cookie, it may or may not make you fingerprintable. Iām not too sure about this so please donāt take my word for this particular question. I am confident about the rest of my comment.
Because they donāt know any better. Thatās why weāre here talking about and discussing things to spread awareness and educate people properly.
I take your point JG but sometimesā¦.. I dunno. 
I am beginning to think that the only thing that could really make a difference is FOSS building a competing ecosystem, but that seems a long time away.
I mean, thatās what Proton is trying to do.
This is absolutely terrifying. It will not only affect Europe negatively, but the rest of the world as well.
The GDPR is the regulation that had the strongest impact on improving data protections and practices for users worldwide in the past decade. Sadly, it seems lobbyists have been successfully attacking it.
This will not help the people or small businesses in any ways. Itās an attack on citizenās fundamental rights to feed even more profits into US-based Big Tech.
I can attest to this. There are many small countries that really for the most part follow EU or North American tech policy practices as they donāt have any significant expertise in how and what and why when it comes to things like this. Other countries simply adopting similar practices but for themselves with minimal changes is not going to be great one bit.
Sad to see EU becoming what it is.
Now GDPR, next Chat Controlā¦
Looks like they forgot how it was with ACTAā¦