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> Personally I like having choices.

And that's exactly the point of GDPR. To give consumers a choice.

The point of the GDPR, as I understood it, is to protect the privacy of users. It does this by limiting users to services that fall within the constraints defined by the regulation. In this sense, your own preferences and will have no meaning, as the GDPR attempts to achieve its goal, in part, by limiting your choices.

Following this rationale, one would also argue that requiring companies to use plain English in privacy policies is a constraint on the end-user's freedom.

If the regulation in effect forbade anyone from using a service that did not do that, then yes, it very clearly would be. That doesn't mean the two (the GDPR and a fictional law that did just what you said) were equally prohibitive, in case that was the implication.

But I take your point, since I never mentioned anything about degrees of prohibitiveness.

Under GDPR you can choose to share your personal details for data mining or choose not to. Previously the choice was entirely owned by the company

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