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Exactly, the GDPR regulations are completely reasonable and it's actually quite odd to see them being put into practice so late. The user data selling wild west had to be regulated at some point to curb predatory practices of Google, Facebook, and many others. If your business model isn't based on exploitation and profiling, it isn't hard at all to comply with GDPR.

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Yeah, I've wondered why everyone has been so late to the party. I mean, we have lived in a world with GDPR for two years now. Companies should have already been complying with it for two years. There was just a transitional period during which there was no enforcement.

Then there's all the GDPR expert blog posts, blasting the EU for not giving any leeway or transition periods. You were in it!

Some of us running small businesses don’t spend our free time studying up on the latest in EU regulations. I only found out about it through a random comment on HN in March.

Cool, then you probably don't care about EU customers anyway

Actually, I do. They represent 30% to 40% of my business (depending on the month). GDPR compliance has cost me a ton of time and money. Wish someone could have notified me somehow before I randomly found out in March because it completely derailed our development roadmap.

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