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Europe's GDPR coincides with dramatic drop in Android apps

Filippo Silver badge

I guess that a few years after Hammurabi first inscribed a law against theft on a stone pillar, plenty of thieves must have complained about the sharp decline in innovative stealing techniques.

If a business model works by exploiting consumer rights, it is not "a good idea being stifled by the government". It's simply not a viable business model, and the company proposing it ought to fold or not even start in the first place.

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