Just had a flashback to the summer of 2018, when every freelance frontend engineer on the planet was summoned to implement GDPR compliance violators, toasts, modals for the entire internet 🍻

𝓓𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓾𝓲𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓭 Engineer at C̶o̶i̶n̶b̶a̶s̶e̶ Yahoo. Yes

Building Design Systems and frontend tools at your favorite internet company like it’s 1999.

Every data engineer was tasked to do an entire inventory of all datasets, their ACLs, retention plans, PII policies, etc. It was a whole thing that took a long time and it's continuously been worked on since then.

…only to have Brave Browser and dozens of ad-block extensions just hide them all anyway. 🫠

(Whenever I do see one, I can never tell if clicking Accept or Decline even makes a difference. 🤷🏻‍♂️)