Comment by zinekeller
5 years ago
The user here just wants honesty - a "As a local American* media, we cannot afford the additional costs of GDPR compliance. As such, this content is not available to EU/EEA." That's it. Not "We are evaluating options to deliver your favorite [sic] content to EEA." when they already decided to no longer server Europeans.
* "local American media" WTF. Almost all of you are large corporates.
This is trivially easy for "local american media" to solve: if you can't manage consent, then stop depositing cookies on European computers.
> then stop depositing cookies on European computers.
You've got GDPR super wrong. If you think GDPR was only about cookies, you've got it wrong (but that's where Google et al. focuses your attention to be honest- disinformation about GDPR and focusing on cookies even when cookies is NOT what GDPR is about).
I know how to suck eggs already; I was a GDPR compliance officer at my last firm. It's about privacy and data protection; cookies that don't violate privacy or track users, and are needed for the proper operation of the site, don't need consent.
The subject is silly banners. Those are nearly always about cookies, or "We won't serve you because you're in Europe, and GDPR" (and the latter violates the GDPR).
My view is that these banners are partly because some businesses think that by annoying users enough, they can get European users to reverse the GDPR. Ain't gonna happen.
Or maybe they are planning to give you localised [sic] content at some point and just haven't prioritised [sic] it yet?