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FWIW, The Salt Lake Tribune is a non-profit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21446317

I dislike tracking on the web as much as the next HN reader, but I can also understand how a small/cash-strapped local newspaper would be hard pressed to spend literally any time or resources making sure that they are compliant with regulations in countries on the other side of the planet.

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Fair enough. Though, they spent the time and money to implement the geo blocking and to consult lawyers.

Pretty sure that geoblocking is what you do when you don't have the cash to hire lawyers to make sure you did your compliance right.

Implementing geoblocking is trivial.

Removing the trackers too.

But what if those trackers is what make them financially viable?

Thanks to the geo blocking, we know that they do not rely on this source of income from European visitors.

So you want them to maintain two versions of their sites + testing + different cache settings, CDNs etc... because of legal requitements from countries an ocean away and people who are unlikely to visit the site anyway?

Is it too much to ask?

Yes. Why would they put any those resources in when it will not increase revenue?

Geoblocking takes less than a day to implement and shields them from legal issues, what you are asking is several weeks of work initially + continuous maintenance work.

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