> These are the same politicians that brought us the law that forces every website to ask EU visitors permission to store cookies with a big fat modal dialog
And to preempt the pointless but inevitable thread to follow: it also wouldn't need the dialog if it were based in the EU.
How do I know? I don't. Maybe it does track users. But the website was used as a counter example to "forces every website", and a hypothetical news.ycombinator.eu which doesn't track users or keep any PII on them (conceivable by any reasonable person) is acceptable as a counter argument.
The point stands. GDPR doesn't force anything. It just prevents you from tracking people silently.
> And to preempt the pointless but inevitable thread to follow: it also wouldn't need the dialog if it were based in the EU.
Exactly. The only thing that every EU-based website should have is a data protection statement. The one on my blog is short and stout:
> No system under my control records any personal data of users of this website.
I also have an imprint because German law requires it. The regulation is clearly aimed at businesses, for private websites it just makes doxxing easy since I'm required to put my post address on there. (I considered getting a PO box, but going to the post office to empty it is pretty tedious.)
No it doesn't. For example
https://news.ycombinator.com/
Does not have any such dialog