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I assume that I’m breaking other countries’ laws all the time, say be criticizing the actions of their governments. I don’t worry about that. I’m much more worried about, say, CCPA compliance while living and working in California. (Not that I’m especially worried it. My personal projects don’t meet any of the criteria which would make it apply to me.)

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The problem for people outside USA is that this country repeatedly demonstrated ability to enforce law for example in Europe.

I would not be worried about say Sri Lanka privacy/blasphemy law but USA court can take down my email, website, important accounts, less important accounts starting from HN, gmail and github accounts.

Yeah, me too. I don’t collect stats on visitors anymore (using Google Analytics for example) because I now understand the privacy implications of doing so. I do use a simple impression counter but I capture no information (not IP, not browser, nothing). I definitely think about the CCPA and ADA laws, but I’m relatively sure they don’t apply to me. Still, I certainly think about them.

I go as far as saying in the TOS that my sites are for users in the US.

Why? What would make you think this has any impact?

I don't think I understand the question.

If the EU wants an extra-territorial legal framework, why can’t a US website owner do the same in their TOS? That’s a perfectly legal thing to do in the US.

The knife cuts both ways.

I personally use a self-hosted analytics app so I can still get some useful feedback without sharing my visitors’ data. I get pretty graphs, and my visitors get to keep their privacy.

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