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by tobr 2374 days ago
”Our European visitors are important to us.” I’m trying to imagine how they decided to go with this headline for the screen that tells European visitors to get lost.
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It sounds better than "we don't like your kind here, piss off".

Compare this parodic press release: http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2017/12/07/improvements/

> In our quest to improve our service for you, the user, we're making it worse.

If you're doing something good, you announce that you're doing something good. If you're doing something bad, you announce you're doing something good.

The message is that they are not good enough in handling privacy to serve EU customers.
Or more accurately that they don't make enough from the EU to justify dealing with the GDPR mess.
It's only a mess if you can't be bothered to respect people's privacy.
It appears that "respecting peoples' privacy" currently equates to having an overlay with a button to accept cookies, and a message stating that using the website means accepting <whatever>. So I haven't figured out what the button means, but to preserve maximum uncertainty, I try not to click it.
You may want to read a bit about what the GDPR mandates.
Why? I don't run a website that collects information on people. Also, I'm not under the delusion that I'm a lawyer.
Or just because the US doesn't have good privacy laws doesn't mean you should then decide to suck up as much data on everyone as possible. Just because they can be a dick doesn't mean they have to.
It's true because they want to make sure they follow European laws, even if they don't understand them fully.