GDPR killed a third of the Android app market, claims study

A paper by a cohort of economic boffins claims the EU’s GDPR legislation has led to a reduction in the number of apps on Google Play, as well as increased costs and reduced revenues for developers.
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation legislation – a key driver of why websites are so annoying to use nowadays thanks to mandated pop ups – has had quite an effect on the Google Play app store since it was enacted in 2018, according to a paper titled GDPR And the Lost G