> It's funny that they keep trying, it has never once worked.

Sure it has. Consider cookie banners: widespread malicious faux-compliance from the start, and approximately nothing was done about it for most of a decade, while people were tricked into believing they were GDPR’s fault. Even now when a little has been done about it, the significant majority of cookie banners are very obviously not compliant with GDPR or ePD requirements, and no consequences occur.