> Well, no. Outfits like Facebook and Amazon can afford to hire attorneys to keep them in compliance with GPDR (or, more accurately, skirt around it). > Small w

> Well, no. Outfits like Facebook and Amazon can afford to hire attorneys to keep them in compliance with GPDR (or, more accurately, skirt around it). > Small website operators can't do that. Accordingly, many have banned EU IP addresses altogether. It's much easier for small sites: not collecting data is free and if they aren't trying to resell it in ways which they don't want their customers to know about, it's easy enough to have a simple privacy policy. Those obtrusive banners are a political choice trying to make it look like GDPR compliance is onerous, but if you're not in the ad-tech business that's really not so hard since all of your cookies are essential.