While i think these rulings are interesting in the sense of providing an opening to EU-grown businesses (if not too late), it does have a comical dimension in it. "Private" information is everywhere, it's in your DNS queries, which also gets propagated to servers in the evil US empire. Are we going to legislate DNS out of existence too? The EU seems to like having a completely private internet, but that's not gonna be possible unless we build one ourselves (how?)

There is a load of hyperbole in the EU privacy business, and it s coming from the german side which is super sensitive to it. But germany is a worldwide exception, their laws for censorship and privacy exist for specific reasons, and they shouldn't be propagating them everywhere.

Specifically in the analytics space, i don't think a lot of people are going to pay for analytics. A free verson makes sense because a lot of websites dont make money. Google provides it for free because they have a monetary incentive to keep marketers in their ecosystem, other companies don't. (Unless the other companies choose to monetize them just as google did)

I think the biggest loser however is going to be the decentralized open web.