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posted by mrpg on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the much-ado-about-nothing dept.

A month after the enforcement date of the General Data Protection Regulation – a law that businesses had two years to prepare for – many websites are still locking out users in the European Union as a method of compliance.

[...] Another retailer that failed to get its house in order is posh homeware store Pottery Barn, whose notice says that "due to technical challenges caused by new regulations in Europe" it can't accept orders from the EU.

"The pace of global regulations is hard to predict," the shop complains about the legislation, which was adopted on 14 April 2016. "But we have the ultimate goal of being able to offer our products everywhere."


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Kawumpa on Tuesday June 26 2018, @07:54AM

    by Kawumpa (1187) on Tuesday June 26 2018, @07:54AM (#698647)

    Because of #GDPR [twitter.com], USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without all the junk! 🙄

    5.2MB → 500KB

    It's fascinating, isn't it? A lot of people complain about the inconvenience GDPR causes them, delaying and sometimes even hindering access to information they need, when in fact a much bigger problem is the unbelievable amount of crap, like ads and tracker scripts, slow down and often hinder access to information in pretty much the same way (like for example you wanting to click a lick or read and story, but the page reformats constantly as ads are being loaded). The majority appear to have become so used to being constantly tracked and presented with poorly designed shit that they either weren't around or can't remember when the web wasn't almost exclusively an advert delivery system.

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