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Because this is a massive barrier to entry for Europeans. You either need to essentially be a lawyer or you can't run ads (or you break the law). Non-europeans
by Mirioron 7y ago
Because this is a massive barrier to entry for Europeans. You either need to essentially be a lawyer or you can't run ads (or you break the law). Non-europeans can easily implement ads and combine this with in app purchases and what not. Europeans can't do that nearly as easily. They will get out competed. I don't see how you don't see how this is bad.
- GordonS 7y agoEuropean here, both a consumer and micro-ISV owner. As a consumer, I very much like the protections the GDPR provides. As a business owner, I don't find GDPR to be a barrier to entry - TBH, anyone who actually cares about user privacy at all would have been near-compliant even before GDPR name in. For me, I think it was 1-2 days, most of it spent reading. It's not difficult to comply with, and I'd be very against exemptions for small businesses - also because larger businesses would use it as a loophole to game the system.
- platelminto 7y agoYou very much don't need to "essentially be a lawyer" to be able to include ads - services like AdMob have easily configurable SDKs for getting GDPR-compliant consent. It's really no more than a few lines of code to respect user's privacy, and if you're collecting significantly more user data then you should be handling it with care.
- inetknght 7y ago> Because this is a massive barrier to entry for Europeans. No. This is a massive barrier to people who aren't used to thinking about their fellow people.
- scaryclam 7y agoI'm sorry but this is utter rubbish. The GDPR is easy to follow. If you can't think 9f how to run a business without being reckless or scummy, then you shouldn't be running one. I work in the EU, in tech, with customer data, with these rules and have zero problems following them.