IANAL, but 3rd party payment gateways cannot legally accept anonymous electronic payments for the merchants in the EU. So even the projects like Taler, trying to meet the regulators and law enforcement half way, are probably de-facto illegal to use.

https://anti-money-laundering.eu/travel-rule/

The only way to ensure the financial sovereignty is to separate the money from the state.

So… nobody changes the default settings, therefore everyone should change the default settings… to the wrong option?

edit: Why is it that homo sapiens is always willing to go an extra mile just to hurt itself?

Why are they always coming up with some kind of bullshit excuse? :D

Is this related to Glance in any way?

Having a union-wide regulatory framework for soda bottle caps, or mandatory categorization of cucumbers seems a lot less like a government overreach in comparison. Thanks, I guess… 🥲