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I assume you don’t host anything that could be useful to the 1.5 to 2 billion people that you’re blocking.

• luma 2y ago
  Or they host a business site that doesn't do business in those countries and so nothing of value is lost to them. For example, it's literally illegal for me to accept payments from .ru, so why bother wasting their time and my bandwidth?
  • ajsnigrutin 2y ago
    I live in EU,and a bunch of american sites just block the whole EU due to GDPR laws. Then someone in US uses my email by accident to subscribe to some newsletter (not the first time, I also get personal emails for that person, since it's just one letter difference, and i'm guessing it's someone old, considering the emails I get), i try to click "unsubscribe", and it just redirects me to "<site> is unavailable in EU, blah blah" page, without unsubscribing. I make sure to report that site to every goddamn spam list possible.
    • rapind 2y ago
      IMO replying unsubscribe should always work for marketing emails and if it doesn’t then I flag the email as spam. Nope, I’m not going to visit that tracked / info gathering unsubscribe link.
      • dheera 2y ago
        I only use unsubscribe links from things I voluntarily and willingly subscribed to. If I was involuntarily subscribed to something, or subscribed because of an inconspicuous "subscribe me" checkbox that I probably didn't notice, including from a legit business that I purchased an item, it's getting reported as spam in Gmail.
        • account42 2y ago
          This is the right approach. Usually I also avoid any future business with a company that starts spamming me.
    • DEADMINCE 2y ago
      > a bunch of american sites just block the whole EU due to GDPR laws. Which is incredibly reasonable. If the EU didn't try to claim EU law applies globally, those sites might still be up.
      • robin_reala 2y ago
        The US is just as bad at extraterritorial law, see FATCA for just one example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance_Act#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
        • DEADMINCE 2y ago
          That situation is quite different. The US is using its significant power and weight to coerce those non-US banks into compliance with FACTA. Those banks don't have to comply, but they want to do business with the US and US companies, then they don't have much of a choice. It's not like they just made a law and now insisted it applies globally, which is what the EU did.
          • echoangle 2y ago
            Isn’t it actually exactly the same? The website doesn’t have to comply (and many don’t), but if they want to do business in the EU, they have to. How is that different?
            • DEADMINCE 2y ago
              No, it's not remotely the same. The US is using the fact that people want to do business with them to coerce compliance, and as written the law only applies to US persons. The EU claims the GDPR applies globally, regardless of if people want to do business with the EU, or even if people ever set foot in the EU. It's amusing nonsense.
          • mratsim 2y ago
            Why is it different? People don't have to comply to GDPR but if they want to serve EU folks then they don't have a choice.