The funny thing is it's not just corporations. When you open the German state railways' website, somehow you get a GDPR overlay, When you open the German revenue agency's website, you get greeted by a cookie banner on top.
I call upon all German users of this website to write to their MPs! Obviously the German civil service is a bad actor! The German deep state is plotting to discredit our beloved eurocrats and must be shut down! Den Sumpf trockenlegen!
> I call upon all German users of this website to write to their legislators! Obviously the German civil service is a bad actor! The German deep state must be shut down!
I understand the joke you're trying to make but you clearly don't understand the relation between germans and privacy/tracking regulation to think this makes sense.
It's not supposed to make sense, it's supposed to show the absurd position of the post I'm replying to. The less it makes sense, the better.
And I only picked Germany, because it's one of the few EU countries where stuff like that is rigorously enforced. In the rest of the EU, everything unrelated to the common market and/or getting money from the EU is at best haphazardly enforced.
If you want to, check out france.fr, a website maintained by an agency of the French tourism ministry. (After disabling the 3 dozens of annoyance blocking extensions everyone must use nowadays, of course.) What do you see?
I call upon all German users of this website to write to their MPs! Obviously the German civil service is a bad actor! The German deep state is plotting to discredit our beloved eurocrats and must be shut down! Den Sumpf trockenlegen!