I suggest just to use pihole at home on a rpi device. Granting a new and small company may be orders of magnitude worse than giving info to the 'evil' unicorns. The big fishes are continuously monitored by a wide community and from the governments as well. I wouldn't give such a private information to anyone not proving that all my private data is treated as it deserves. The only way I can see this happening would be to have them release everything to the Foss community.

Maybe they will block access at the beginning, but here in Europe we have a huge market and I do not really believe that companies will stay away just because they cannot steal our data. If so, then we will be very happy about it and someone else will get their pie slice..

It's not about 'stealing data'. It's the vague regulations and overreach by the EU that will stop companies and investors from entering the EU market.

"If so, then we will be very happy about it and someone else will get their pie slice.."

An interesting unintended consequence is that small companies will be pushed out of the market in favor of large companies that have the money to pay for all of the legal hoops you have to jump through.

A few large players dominating the market is not really in the best interest of anyone...except the companies that are able to keep out all of their competitors.

This. GDPR is not merely a list of bad things not to do, compliance requires a lot of new work and risking huge penalties if someone decides your lawyer should have interpreted the (untested!) law differently.

Buy one or two houses in a nice seaside area, rent them, live all your life with a continuous income and do not spend too much. I would do this if this crappy software project management work I am doing gave me the same money :)