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The message is that they are not good enough in handling privacy to serve EU customers.



Or more accurately that they don't make enough from the EU to justify dealing with the GDPR mess.


It's only a mess if you can't be bothered to respect people's privacy.


It appears that "respecting peoples' privacy" currently equates to having an overlay with a button to accept cookies, and a message stating that using the website means accepting <whatever>. So I haven't figured out what the button means, but to preserve maximum uncertainty, I try not to click it.


You may want to read a bit about what the GDPR mandates.


Why? I don't run a website that collects information on people. Also, I'm not under the delusion that I'm a lawyer.


Or just because the US doesn't have good privacy laws doesn't mean you should then decide to suck up as much data on everyone as possible. Just because they can be a dick doesn't mean they have to.




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