Re:How counterfeits benefit Amazon
by gcatalfamo on Saturday September 29, 2018 @04:58AM
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“Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.”
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> We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options...
Full four months of engagement and commitment, that's pretty impressive.
Its a traditional publisher what do you expect, it took me years to get a simple change made (redirecting the .org domain to .com for a site) when I worked at Relex (reed elsiveer)
Hey you’re not wrong, just maybe not clear enough.
It’s true that many traditional publications and houses are slower to adapt to changes in the digital landscape ever since print as an output has been sidelined. They like to find something that works and stick with it, even if it’s not optimal.
It would likely explain LA Times’ delay.
It’s taken teams I’ve been on a year to procure a ten dollar a month VPS because the request would continually get turned down by infra.
Google AMP is another way around this particular barrier (on mobile). You need to Google the article title to get the AMP url.
Only if youre on a mobile using a supported-by-amp browser (e.g. Chrome).
You can do this by emulating a mobile device in developer tools on desktop.
Funnily I'm not being blocked in Norway, which has also adopted GDPR through the EEA-agreement.
Re:How counterfeits benefit Amazon
by ddebernardy on Saturday September 29, 2018 @03:16PM
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Assuming they've non-compliant tracking and data retention policies, consider filing a complaint for GDPR violation to bring it to their attention. And put forward a settlement whereby the rest of us in Europe can access their site after they make it compliant. ;-)