Silicon Valley tech industry largely ignored the ruling

Exactly. A pretty meaningless and unenforceable ruling. It sounds like the judges don't understand how the Internet works. If a European visits a US hosted site, the US host is under no legal requirement to serve them a special European-only page that doesn't collect "personal data". Even if a tech company wanted to abide by that ruling, IP-to-geography mapping is imprecise. Building out functionality to tailor code to specific geographic regions is always unreliable.

I'm all for hating on Google, but this is just dumb of the EU, and a massive waste of their tax dollars. If you want to protect your data, don't rely on some weak unenforceable government law to do it. Use the uBlock extension, the Brave web browser, or some other tech that actually blocks the data collection.