GDPR is a controversial law that has benefits (e.g. transparency) and disadvantages (e.g. a lot of legal pressure and harsh punishments if accidentally breached). But the biggest benefit is **§20 data portability!** It mandates social media sites to provide a data export tool that exports all user data into one archive with the machine-readable data (often at least **almost** all user data). That's extremely practical and so awesome! I always [appreciate](/p/152184) data portability! Some websites sadly only allow requesting the user data via an email, and some have long minimum delays between requests (i.e. 1 month). But that data portability functionality is **highly** appreciated.