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”Our European visitors are important to us.” I’m trying to imagine how they decided to go with this headline for the screen that tells European visitors to get lost.

It sounds better than "we don't like your kind here, piss off".

Compare this parodic press release: http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2017/12/07/improvements/

> In our quest to improve our service for you, the user, we're making it worse.

If you're doing something good, you announce that you're doing something good. If you're doing something bad, you announce you're doing something good.

The message is that they are not good enough in handling privacy to serve EU customers.

Or more accurately that they don't make enough from the EU to justify dealing with the GDPR mess.

It's only a mess if you can't be bothered to respect people's privacy.

It appears that "respecting peoples' privacy" currently equates to having an overlay with a button to accept cookies, and a message stating that using the website means accepting <whatever>. So I haven't figured out what the button means, but to preserve maximum uncertainty, I try not to click it.

You may want to read a bit about what the GDPR mandates.

Why? I don't run a website that collects information on people. Also, I'm not under the delusion that I'm a lawyer.

Or just because the US doesn't have good privacy laws doesn't mean you should then decide to suck up as much data on everyone as possible. Just because they can be a dick doesn't mean they have to.

It's true because they want to make sure they follow European laws, even if they don't understand them fully.

Is this relevant to the EU? I see lots of complaints about amazon on the HN frontpage but they mostly focus on the US. I assume tighter regulation and import tariffs on the other side of the atlantic would result in amazon's product selection looking different and perhaps getting counterfeits in is more onerous.

I haven't had any issues in the UK, and I suspect it's just the same effort to list on US and UK websites so why not go for the bigger site.

I was browsing for bird feed recently on Amazon DE and FR sold by Amazon themselves as I mostly don’t trust third parties. Some reviewers said they received just a transparent plastic bag with different seeds in it.

All those reviews were from 2019. So my guess is that they’ve started to commingle in Europe too.

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