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Sure, that's a criterion for art 3 para 2 sub a. What I am talking about is sub b, for which the question whether one offers goods and services is irrelevant (that's what I meant when I said 'a and b are alternative, not cumulative').

So the question is - does the Chicago Tribune 'monitor user behavior'. The recitals say about that

In order to determine whether a processing activity can be considered to monitor the behaviour of data subjects, it should be ascertained whether natural persons are tracked on the internet including potential subsequent use of personal data processing techniques which consist of profiling a natural person, particularly in order to take decisions concerning her or him or for analysing or predicting her or his personal preferences, behaviours and attitudes.

If I look at the list of tracking scripts, it's rather obvious that this is what their 'data processors' are doing. Hence, the territorial scope extends to them.