[osigurdson]

If those are CDN urls then likely they resolve to IPs within the EU so that use case would probably be fine.

>> throwing up warnings pretty often

That is mostly the situation (globally) with cookie banners. There would be a transition period but eventually there would be fewer and fewer warnings.

[eesmith]

I'll say again: "And then there's something odd about thinking that if you connect to Facebook's data center in Ireland then that interaction with Facebook is fully regulated by the EU and the data is safe."

The EU–US Data Privacy Framework is bogus. It exists because European organizations want to use US tech under a thin fig leaf with the word "privacy" on it.

> eventually there would be fewer and fewer warnings

From what I gather, that is not true about cookie banners. The implication is these banners say the GDPR is pointless, but the actuality is European companies also want to profit from data gathering.