The cookie law was also largely overblown. It only require notifications for any non-essential cookies and I think the wordpress plugins for this simply put up a blanket banner because the blog author might just be using the Google Anal ytics plugin too.

And then everyone put it up "just in case" or "because the law says all cookies". (Of course some smart people figured out that local storage is not a cookie and the law only covers cookies, atleast what they gather from hearsay instead of checking the actual text)

But tbh, I'd prefer US services IP blocking European users. It'll encourage EU startups to fill the gap and they will have the privacy regulation of the EU as marketing bullet point over any US company, eg "In the US privacy is a pinky-promise, for us privacy is law".

You do care. Everytime some web service is US only there's endless ranting from Europeans about it.

That's because, most of the time, a service is US-only because of some bullshit reason like exclusive region-locking deals or MAFIAA copyright terrorism. I don't think that "this service is unavailable in your country because your law doesn't let us sell your private data to the highest bidder" is going to induce that much ranting.

Once blocking by US websites becomes a little more widespread there will be EU alternatives to fill the gaps. Normally I'm not a huge fan of such solutions, but if the alternative is exposing myself to the wild west of unregulated selling of my personal data that is the US I'll learn to live with it.