> Google has effectively been GDPR compliant or close to it for years
True, sort of. They only did that because the EU started an anti-trust investigation against them, though. And now they risk paying a $2.8 billion fine, so maybe Google is still worse off in the end?
Not really. Google has been following these practices waaaaaay before the EU fine. Both the export tools, logging of all your activities (and ability to actually delete them), and automatic expiration of all data derived from user signals.
True, sort of. They only did that because the EU started an anti-trust investigation against them, though. And now they risk paying a $2.8 billion fine, so maybe Google is still worse off in the end?