Really goes to show how what they do with the reader's data that they collect is actually shady to the point of illegality in large swathes of the world.
What it really shows is that they have so little EU-originating readers/income that it doesn’t make economical sense spend thousands of dollars on evaluating compliance. And yes, the law is poorly written that even parsing it is a non trivial cost, particularly if you are a risk-averse organization.
It may mean they are doing obscene tracking too, but you are making ideological assumption if that’s your only hypothesis.
It may mean they are doing obscene tracking too, but you are making ideological assumption if that’s your only hypothesis.