If I recall correctly, this is how the GDPR works. If someone to who the GDPR applies to visits a website, a website cannot record any information about them, r

If I recall correctly, this is how the GDPR works. If someone to who the GDPR applies to visits a website, a website cannot record any information about them, regardless of whether that website actually is based in the EU, which is why certain US websites block traffic from the EU. Source: https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/ https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/ 1. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not. 2. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to: (a) the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or (b) the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union. 3. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data by a controller not established in the Union, but in a place where Member State law applies by virtue of public international law. E.g. the website in this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45819635 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45819635 does not work when you visit it with a European IP address. You get an error 451.