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Who needs any of that? Just remove people from the voter registration of candidates that disapprove of you in their country.

Oh that already happened?

The opt-out, is to navigate away and not use their service. Which matches the GDPR - if you need the data to create a contract - like 'we use your data in exchange for your use of our site' then you can keep it.

there’s not a lawful basis unless advertising-cookies are suddenly the enabling technology behind downloadable containers.

Yes they are. Advertising cookies are how those downloadable containers are provided. That's an enabling technology. It wouldn't exist otherwise in the technology ghetto of the EU.

GDPR was about telling the consumer what is being done with their data and about transparency, so at least it was for the people.

If you say so. Seems to be more about threatening small players with risks well beyond anything reasonable.

Their intention doesn't mesh well with the law as created. I'd say the biggest outcome is the number of services the EU has lost from the GDPR.