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I'd be curious of a detailed analysis of the cost of GDPR to EU consumers. There are websites that shut down or no longer servicing European customers because of the concerns around GDPR.

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I know that's only anecdotal and no evidence at all, but the only time I encountered a website that is not serving European users anymore was a link here on HN.

I think most users didn't even notice and for the people who do and are really bothered, there are workarounds such as VPNs

I've only anecdotally ran across half a dozen local US news sites that claim how their EU visitors are very important (clearly they're not) and also a Japanese lyrics site.

A local US news site that doesn't care about its few EU visitors obviously doesn't fall under GDPR. I wonder if one that targets them by putting up a non-compliant popup does?

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