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Re:Europe wants to prohibits unjustified geographical restri... by Symbiote on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:19PM (#25257696)
This is nothing to do with that.

It is about a company in one (or more) EU countries blocking access to people in one (or more) other EU countries.

"Sorry, this item can't be delivered to Denmark" seen on Amazon.de is presumably one example, another is downloaded media.

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Re:Europe wants to prohibits unjustified geographical restri... by 8note on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:11PM (#25258342)
Another example is putting country specific assumptions into your address fields, eg. Requiring a province in a from using a select, and offering only Canadian provinces.

Even if they support everything else, that quirk prevents you from shopping there without a Canadian billing address.

I ran into this yesterday.

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