Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 months agoTypically, those already have geo filters because they can’t be bothered to implement EU requirements.
Unless you’re outside of the EU, of course, in which case you’ll probably be tracked no matter what.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 10 months ago
One example I know if is my hometown newspaper, dentonrc.com; I have a friend who moved to Europe and was annoyed that they geo-blocked him, but I can’t really blame them. How many people are really gonna visit the site for a small American newspaper from the EU? From a business perspective it makes no sense for them to pay a developer to do more than the bare minimum.
nybble41@programming.dev 10 months ago
Geoblocking in such cases would not be sufficient. For one thing your geo-IP database will never be perfectly accurate, even without considering that “data subjects who are in the Union” can connect to your site via proxies or VPNs with non-EU IP addresses. For another you still need to respond to GDPR requests e.g. to remove data collected on a data subject currently residing in the EU, even if the data was collected while they were outside the EU, and you can’t do that if you’re blocking their access to the site. For a newspaper in particular the same would apply to any EU data subject they happened to report on, whether they had previously visited the site or not.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 10 months ago
What exactly is the EU gonna do about a foreign site that does no business in the EU? They don’t rule the world.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I know, I certainly don’t blame the little sites.