[lopis]

And this case is successful, we might see real repercussions this time around, instead of a wave of cookie banners. On the other hand, we might also see way more websites willing to straight-out block EU users from accessing them. And they won't be missed.

[miroljub]

As an EU citizen, I'll be happy if Meta would block me everywhere. Then I won't have to fiddle with various ad blocker and tracking blocker settings to make sure they are not getting anything from me.

[nequo]

Blocking a market of 447 million people simply because you need to ask them to click "agree" before you use their personal data (which most people do anyway) sounds like a bad business decision.

[lopis]

And yet several companies did exactly that in 2018 after GDPR started being enforced in Europe.

[nequo]

Do you have examples? Wikipedia[1] only mentions these:

  Instapaper (restored service in the EU in August 2018)
  Unroll.Me
  Klout (went defunct in 2018)
  The Chicago Tribune (local newspaper)
  The Los Angeles Times (local newspaper)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...