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by matthewmacleod 2725 days ago
Sounds amazing, to be honest.

I'm quite enjoying the weird interstitial pages from a variety of US-based sites that block EU users. It's like a massive billboard saying "WE ARE USING YOUR DATA IN WAYS THAT YOU DON'T CONTROL", and is a reminder to use other services elsewhere.

GDPR is relatively straightforward to comply with, particularly for the simpler kind of sites that don't seem to have bothered. It basically codifies the sort of best practice that should have been in place already, and I'm sure many of us are happy to see that there is movement towards regulating the disastrous dumpster fire of personal data in this way.
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kasey_junk 2725 days ago
It’s not at all simple for ad supported publishers who are the most prominent users of the blocking.

It maybe a case where this is the intended consequence of the law but it wasn’t sold that way ahead of time.

European publications are being even more impacted by this as they can’t resort to blocking. It will be very interesting how this impacts the publishers in the next few years.

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JAlexoid 2725 days ago
Here's the kicker - most European online publications were already in compliance. GPDR is only slightly more stringent, than most EU privacy laws on file.

The biggest complaints come from foreigners, if you haven't noticed.

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kasey_junk 2725 days ago
No one knows if they are in compliance or not yet. For instance https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/fresh-gdpr-complaints-take-... outlines a complaint that all of real time bidding that is compliant with the IAB compliance framework is not compliant with GDPR.

Major publications, for instance Der Spiegel, which are trying to be compliant by following that standard (and they had to do major work to do so) may find they are out of compliance http://www.spiegel.de/extra/what-we-do-with-your-data-a-1211...

Similar complaints have been brought against publishers that used googles compliance framework.

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tzs 2725 days ago
> GDPR is relatively straightforward to comply with, particularly for the simpler kind of sites that don't seem to have bothered.

For a small site, having to appoint a representative in the Union might not be straightforward. See Article 27. They might be excused from this requirement by meeting the three conditions given in Article 27(2)(a), but that is vague.

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