It might be similar to how credit report agencies have to provide the reports for free under GDPR, but not before trying to make you pay twenty different ways.

>but not before trying to make you pay twenty different ways.

This itself is illegal. It must be simple and straightforward. EU laws broadly do not tolerate the rules lawyering popular in the US, companies know what the intent is and playing games will not work out in their favor.

Yet none of this is enforced, otherwise all the (non-compliant) obnoxious cookie consent popups would disappear overnight.

Same with the DMA - Apple is blatantly acting in bad faith and contempt of the regulations and have yet to see a fine.

a practice which was found to illigal in court cases

The question is - will they actually be fined by anyone in EU for this? Because in practice GDPR enforcement is incredibly spotty and slow.

It’s meant to take on the large/multiple offenders; if they get enough complaints about 1 company and after warnings that company doesn’t change, they will fine.

Facebook has probably the most complaints ever and the fines are a rounding error of the profit they made breaching the regulation.

they could fine without warning and IMHO they should start doing so it's the law isn't new isn't complicated to roughly get right for 99% of companies so there is no longer reason to go easy on companies which seem to very knowingly give a shit (independently of weather it actually was knowingly)

That would make it more like the US with over litigation, companies hiring people to find competitors in violation and going by the letter instead of the intent of the law. Also; the gdpr is large and complex but the intent is pretty clear; if we start to go by the letter, very many companies are unknowingly in violation but cannot afford consultants. They don’t abuse the data ; they just store too much for instance. It would be very strange if they get fined immediately; they will have 0 complaints over their existence probably, so a warning would suffice.

The companies that don’t give a shit aka ignore warnings from the overseer in their country, will get fined; small or big. It works fine.

GDPR enforcement happens on a daily basis

the problem is violations are just far to many

the reporting of them spotty

and the processing is far too slow

also too little clarification for "predictable edge cases and ways companies try to circumvent" had been put in law upfront (laws some a form of comment section into which such things can be placed, most times as result of previous court decisions)

and from the resources which are available too many are bound in large companies bullshitting around by trying to delay enforcement by a very obvious misinterpretations of the law and huge legal teams/founds to delay and delay and delay

Does the GDPR prevent the data controller from charging the user reasonable costs for deletion?

There are circumstances where they can charge a 'reasonable fee' for processing a Subject Access Request.

yes it's free of charge and has to be processed in due time

also having a payed deletion and a hidden free GDPR complilant deletion is also not legal