[levi-turner]

I don't disagree to the conclusion but the Sun-Sentinel is owned by the Tribune Publishing Company, which is the third largest newspaper publisher in the US. Often the subsidiaries use the same core CMS / tech. Compare the Sun-Sentinel to another paper owned by Tribune: https://www.pilotonline.com/

It seems a bit odd to not believe there is not only a way to handle this more gracefully but also that Tribune could handle this globally for all of their newspapers.

[p49k]

At the very least, they could license and proxy content to a European third party who is willing to take responsibility for GDPR compliance; they could easily find takers.

[fennecfoxen]

They could, but why? To make an additional $0.0000003 a month?

[p49k]

At any given time, there are hundreds of stories in the Tribune network that have gone viral on Reddit/Facebook and are generating millions of EU page views. They don’t just operate one local newspaper in Florida, and many local stories have broad appeal. As the parent comment mentioned, they very clearly run all of this content on the same CMS and wouldn’t need to integrate each paper’s website individually.