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Most no-EU sites should have been blocking EU users one day 1 of GDPR. Instead we had Google and adtech firms lying to their customers about legality and loopho

by AJ007 4y ago

Most no-EU sites should have been blocking EU users one day 1 of GDPR. Instead we had Google and adtech firms lying to their customers about legality and loopholes while GDPR supporters told smaller webmasters they didn't have to strictly comply with it. DSA will be a bigger test. The thing that seems most probable is platform bifurcation whether or not Section 230 survives in the US.

kmlx 4y ago
> Most no-EU sites should have been blocking EU users one day 1 of GDPR. yes, websites do this. they block EU users because of GDPR. in some regards GDPR managed to create another internet split. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/451 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/451 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 > The number 451 is a reference to Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, in which books are outlawed.[2] 451 provides more information than HTTP 403, which is often used for the same purpose.[3] This status code is currently a proposed standard in RFC 7725 but is not yet formally a part of HTTP, as of RFC 9110. > Examples of situations where an HTTP 451 error code could be displayed include web pages deemed a danger to national security, or web pages deemed to violate copyright, privacy, blasphemy laws, or any other law or court order.
- nottorp 4y ago
  In my experience only sites that look like local news have told me "oops you're in europe we don't do business with you". Stuff like "the times of Chakahooee, New Hampshire" *. I understand them not bothering, I only randomly - and rarely - reach them because of links on another site. Most sites that do have a global audience have a popup. Sometimes very dark pattern ish, sometimes not. But they bother. * I really hope I just made up that town name.
beebeepka 4y ago
Why, do you think, most sites didn't block EU users?

by AJ007 4y ago

kmlx 4y ago

> Most no-EU sites should have been blocking EU users one day 1 of GDPR. yes, websites do this. they block EU users because of GDPR. in some regards GDPR managed to create another internet split. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/451 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/451 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 > The number 451 is a reference to Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, in which books are outlawed.[2] 451 provides more information than HTTP 403, which is often used for the same purpose.[3] This status code is currently a proposed standard in RFC 7725 but is not yet formally a part of HTTP, as of RFC 9110. > Examples of situations where an HTTP 451 error code could be displayed include web pages deemed a danger to national security, or web pages deemed to violate copyright, privacy, blasphemy laws, or any other law or court order.

nottorp 4y ago
In my experience only sites that look like local news have told me "oops you're in europe we don't do business with you". Stuff like "the times of Chakahooee, New Hampshire" *. I understand them not bothering, I only randomly - and rarely - reach them because of links on another site. Most sites that do have a global audience have a popup. Sometimes very dark pattern ish, sometimes not. But they bother. * I really hope I just made up that town name.

beebeepka 4y ago

Why, do you think, most sites didn't block EU users?