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by nequo 1263 days ago
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.
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And yet several companies did exactly that in 2018 after GDPR started being enforced in Europe.
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...