Slightly related and not worth it's own post, but someone in Chicago has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, making them the second person in the US with it.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-coronavirus-...
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-coronavirus-...
> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.
Turning off trackers is harder, you do the same geo IP, but then you have to find all the places you put trackers, and disable them, and test the site without them, and somehow make sure when the next tracker is inserted, it doesn't go to EU. If your code is well managed, it might be easy, but if you're a newspaper, who knows. They may have several different generations of template systems, with older articles staying on what they were published with, or older articles may be static html with embedded trackers.
Personally I don't have a stake either way in the matter. I can see the argument from both sides. But the entire point of a business is to generate revenue, and we can't do that if we start trying to comply with every local chirp and by-law places decide to pass.
Supporting the GDPR isn’t free, those technical and legal costs have to be justified by saving an appropriate amount of lost revenues.
All laws are nuanced, just thinking that you are already doing the right thing isn’t enough to avoid legal liability.
As for the Tribune's availability it sucks, but is not surprising. They are a big paper in the Midwest, but they definitely do not have the resources compared to bigger publications, nor do I think do they have any kind of focus on the international market.