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This says I can't read the article because I'm in portugal .Why?

• meheleventyone 3y ago
  Some smaller news places like this one decided it’s easier to block Europe than comply with regulations from Europe.
  • FirmwareBurner 3y ago
    > it’s easier to block Europe Yeah, it's just sooo hard to not track people, like HN does. /s
• fragmede 3y ago
  the other end of GDPR
• sokoloff 3y ago
  If the perceived cost of compliance is higher than the perceived value of the traffic, some sites will rationally decide to block the traffic.
• sfifs 3y ago
  If any business doesn't do or expect to do any business in Europe, there's no good reason to serve Europe and assume the risks and costs associated with GDPR on top of complying with regulations for your market. I'd love to see any analysis on how GDPR has panned out in the years post adoption. I'd guess little or nothing has changed to the big advertising firms who all promote a logged in ecosystem but I would assume data brokerage with "third party cookies" has gone way down