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"Our European visitors are important to us. This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is

"Our European visitors are important to us. This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws." -> Well, not that important that you can just stop the tracking for a second for us apparently :S.

djaychela 7y ago
Funnily enough, I was just thinking exactly that - and wondering just how much tracking that site does that it's not straightforward for them to stop doing it (and/or deal with data they had previously collected). Or is it just a knee-jerk reaction to GDPR that some non-EU companies have adopted and has now stuck?
- jlengrand 7y ago
  Both options are indeed plausible. I'd also add the "we don't get enough of those visitors that we care even taking the five minutes it would take to stop the tracking for those" or the "wow, stop tracking for a given crowd sounds diificult to achieve".
- Normal_gaussian 7y ago
  Through a friend I met a solicitor working at a firm that had a temporary endeavour with an acturial/accounting firm during peak GDPR advice. As a British firm they specialised in advising non-European firms on whether to and from where to get GDPR advice. In essence their process was to woo client with quick turnaround, get whatever books they could, determine how much money the client was making in the EU + a super rough estimate of likely growth, and return one of roughly a dozen canned answers. Whole thing was taking them less than half a days work per client per two person team. The kind of company that takes advice like that isn't likely to review the policy anytime soon.
- GraemeL 7y ago
  uBlock Origin blocked 15 items on the page for me (20%) when I bypassed their geoblock. Not great, not terrible. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary in what was filtered so it's probably just knee-jerk.
- ikurei 7y ago
  How much does it cost to implement GDPR (for a company that isn't in tech)? How much many visits from the EU does a local TV station from Providence get? It's probably not worth it for them.
ikurei 7y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20191226100007/https://www.wpri.com/news/call-12-for-action/counterfeits-on-amazon-cost-warren-bird-feeder-business-1-5m/ https://web.archive.org/web/20191226100007/https://www.wpri....
- jlengrand 7y ago
  Thanks!

djaychela 7y ago

Funnily enough, I was just thinking exactly that - and wondering just how much tracking that site does that it's not straightforward for them to stop doing it (and/or deal with data they had previously collected). Or is it just a knee-jerk reaction to GDPR that some non-EU companies have adopted and has now stuck?

jlengrand 7y ago
Both options are indeed plausible. I'd also add the "we don't get enough of those visitors that we care even taking the five minutes it would take to stop the tracking for those" or the "wow, stop tracking for a given crowd sounds diificult to achieve".
Normal_gaussian 7y ago
Through a friend I met a solicitor working at a firm that had a temporary endeavour with an acturial/accounting firm during peak GDPR advice. As a British firm they specialised in advising non-European firms on whether to and from where to get GDPR advice. In essence their process was to woo client with quick turnaround, get whatever books they could, determine how much money the client was making in the EU + a super rough estimate of likely growth, and return one of roughly a dozen canned answers. Whole thing was taking them less than half a days work per client per two person team. The kind of company that takes advice like that isn't likely to review the policy anytime soon.
GraemeL 7y ago
uBlock Origin blocked 15 items on the page for me (20%) when I bypassed their geoblock. Not great, not terrible. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary in what was filtered so it's probably just knee-jerk.
ikurei 7y ago
How much does it cost to implement GDPR (for a company that isn't in tech)? How much many visits from the EU does a local TV station from Providence get? It's probably not worth it for them.

ikurei 7y ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20191226100007/https://www.wpri.com/news/call-12-for-action/counterfeits-on-amazon-cost-warren-bird-feeder-business-1-5m/ https://web.archive.org/web/20191226100007/https://www.wpri....

jlengrand 7y ago
Thanks!