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A comment on Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or Any EU Traffic Under GDPR. Parent comment

Re:Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or An... by nordsieck on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:58PM (#17168488)
> No sane western corporation will willingly eliminate an entity about the site of USA out of spite and take a profit hit just because of new PII protocol. Just look at FB, Google and the rest of the advertising companies.

That's true for big companies.

The calculation changes for small companies, and really changes for hobby projects.

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Re:Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or An... by apple4ever on Sunday May 27, 2018 @04:25PM (#17168932)
Exactly this. The big companies can afford to pay people to deal with the issue.

For small companies one mistake and they could be out of business. So its easier to avoid the problem to begin with.

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