logging them is pretty harmless in my mind. Geolocation for analytics purposes is also fine in my book. Great, but that's not what the law says? I think it's

logging them is pretty harmless in my mind. Geolocation for analytics purposes is also fine in my book. Great, but that's not what the law says? I think it's fine for sites to block EU visitors, and fine for EU visitors to go somewhere else, whether they're blocked or not. But that's not at issue here, is it? HN isn't blocking EU users, they haven't updated their privacy policy in more than a year, and they're likely collecting data that, while you personally may be OK with it, isn't compliant with the GDPR. So it seems like you're willing to give them a pass even though they're not compliant? So why the hostility towards other sites that are in the same boat, but take the additional precautionary step of blocking EU users to show that they're really trying not to violate the law, and that they don't want those visitors since they're not compliant?