Or, maybe they're balancing it with the amount of money/time you spend buying stuff you didn't really need/shopping. It's probably not illegal to have someone follow you to see where you shop, eat, work and sleep, but if a company could deploy one person to follow you 24/7 and report back for basically for free without telling you, there's a line crossed.
Also, besides browsing news/Reddit/shopping, where do you see the GDPR prompt? Banks, AWS, GCP, don't use tracking cookies, so how many "years" of productive work are really being taken away? Sure, its a barrier to shopping which also boosts the economy, but why does Nissan they need to know I just bought a power inverter or visited Tesla if they deliver a solid car on their own merits?
Also, besides browsing news/Reddit/shopping, where do you see the GDPR prompt? Banks, AWS, GCP, don't use tracking cookies, so how many "years" of productive work are really being taken away? Sure, its a barrier to shopping which also boosts the economy, but why does Nissan they need to know I just bought a power inverter or visited Tesla if they deliver a solid car on their own merits?