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Sorry about that. The form should only be shown for people in the USA, but detecting the country you're in can't be done perfectly. Which is a good reminder - we'll look into making the US-only part clearer.

(I'm an engineer on Monitor.)

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I'm also not clear why this is US only. There's definitely a market in other areas of the world. I'd be interested to know why it should be US only.

They're likely starting with the US because either their partner(s) for this is US only and/or it's easier to start with a single large market. The US is about a 50% larger market in terms of GDP than all EU countries combined.

That is correct, and it's way more of a problem in the US (but also e.g. in Brazil).

Also: are you the JohnTHaller of PortableApps fame? If so: thanks for making my high school computer usage bearable, way back when!

I am indeed! Still supporting and growing it. You're welcome!

Or perhaps, just thinking out loud, you could extend support for the service to other countries. The EU would love you for this at the very least.

I'm sure if it was as easy as snapping their fingers, they'd have done it.

Time is a finite resource, and a lot of these data brokers seem to be very geographically-specific and have their own ways of requesting deletion.

I am from the EU, so tell me about it :) But yes, the sibling comment is right: this isn't something you can expand to other countries with the push of a button.

Personally, for this specific functionality, I don't think the EU wouldn't be at the top of the list though: these types data brokers are way more of a problem in other countries. We have laws like GDPR :)

What’s wrong with simply displaying/linking to a list of supported countries?

The "list" is:

- USA

It is listed in places, but clearly not explicitly enough in the right places.

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