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Comment by hugi | Hacker News Reader

As a European running multiple sites and services, you seem to have no idea what you're talking about. The EU rules are quite simple and easy to follow, and I love having real privacy protection from corporate interests.

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I can see how reworking an existing system to be GDPR compliant can be a major headache. But for anything designed from the ground up the rules are really easy to follow and quite sensible.

Sure they are simple to follow. The question I have for you is how do you attract new customers?

By providing useful products or services?

As a company you need to follow the law. As a company, to attract new customer you sell something useful. Those two aren't mutually exclusive. For example, you can sell a service to a customer even if you respect their privacy.

Ads are still legal, that hasn’t changed. You can still target customer based on the sites the visit or the sesrches they make.

Sales people, well agencies, are just super pissed that they now have to do actual work. For years they’ve been able to make money by clicking around in AdWords and Facebook ads, now the real sales people has to get back to work.

A couple people here have said "make something useful." Fascinating. So make something useful but then how do you actually get it in front of people without resorting to very expensive and inefficient brand advertising?

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