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> Our European visitors are important to us.

...uh huh.

"Honey, you are so important to me that I decided to dump you."

If you tried adapt the corporate wording in your everyday life, you'd be judged by everyone as one of the biggest a-hole there is, and rightly so.

I wonder the proportion of people like me who are aggravated by this bs...

Mealy-mouthed corporate platitudes really irk me too.

I just assume everything any company says is a flat out lie, except when forced by law and even then they're trying to wiggle out of the full truth.

Yes, I think it's a fair assumption unfortunately.

If we can't sell your data we don't want you! Typing this from Iceland, which is, at least last time I checked, not in the EU. Not sure if the GDPR rules apply here...

Yes, the GDPR applies in the entire EEA, so also in Iceland.

Ah, didn't know that! I assumed it was an EU-only thing!

Yes, EEA countries follow the large majority of EU laws but have no input into the drafting of them.

It's more like "If you don't want us handling your data in a specific way which we do for everyone, we will gladly oblige by not letting you give us your data".

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