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> This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.

The access is limited since May 2017?

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Can't imagine Euro visitors are...at all...cared about by a US local news outlet.

Maybe not in general but the issues with Amazon isn’t limited to .com. We get all the same problems with .co.uk, so I’d be interested in reading what happened

Archive to the rescue: https://archive.is/TR6HX

It's because they don't want to give anyone an option to opt out of data collection - easier to lock out all EU than actually stop/reduce/give choice for data collection.

It really isn't. I used to work in IT for a newspaper. They _really_ are hyper-local. They don't went to spend a cent on even out-of-state visitors, much less out-of-continent.

Resources are tight, and the ROI is non-existent.

But if a law came in to effect that requires them to not abuse customer data in their local area as well, there suddenly would be a 'ROI' on that?

Seems to me they chose to simply not care about what data they collect on who from the start and it will bite them in the ass eventually.

Eventually is not today.

They don't care because EU visitors don't bring enough ad revenue.

It's an RI news station. Under slightly different circumstances, I'm sure they'd be mystified as to why they should adjust their privacy policy for visitors from Massachusetts, let alone exotic destinations like Oz, Narnia, Westeros or Europe.

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