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You can just ignore it if you are not in the EU

• gojomo 5y ago
  These websites, based on their own internal analyses, have concluded ignoring it completely is not safe for them. But also, they know that implementing (& maintaining!) compliance, moreso than a simple block, has nonzero cost, while EU readers provide them negligible benefit. So they take the easy way out, given the incentives created by the EU. And what had been a free bonanza for EU readers – a peek into info sources from elsewhere, easier for the sites to provide than to limit in any way – has had extra friction added by the EU, to the detriment of EU subjects.
  • Xenoamorphous 5y ago
    It’s perfectly fine that if the site is small/low budget and has a small percentage of European users they don’t bother being GDPR complaint. It’s their choice. But at least they shouldn’t blatantly lie in the message they show, saying they’re working on it and how important EU visitors are.