[Semiapies]

Which is the answer I see all of 50% of the time. Then, I see "Well, actually it is non-compliant because yadda yadda". My company isn't going to hire international compliance experts to review the operations of every public website we run, and we don't have any that need European visitors. So, best to just block them.

[oneplane]

But what about national compliance experts, do you hire those? Because you have a lot more national compliance on your plate than international...

[Semiapies]

That just emphasises how worthless it would be to spend effort to make sure we're compliant with GDPR. We have better things to do.

[oneplane]

And that just emphasises how much you'd rather not worry about user data or telling users about it. You have money to make off of it?

[Semiapies]

Meaning what? Our time is finite. Time we spend trying to comply with European regulations, when we have no European presence and seek no European customers, is time taken away from everything else we need to do—including complying with the actual laws we live under.