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>>azalem+(OP)
The list's probably going to get a lot longer. I wonder how it's going to compare to the list of sites who block Europeans due to GDPR concerns. I've only ever noticed two sites that did that, even though the amount of noise from Americans was not insubstantial. The OSA is a lot more invasive than the GDPR though.

>>Telane+Q1
The main category of site which GDPR blocks are local news sites in the US

Sites block for GDPR because they want to abuse visitor data and privacy

Sites block for OSA because they don't want to abuse visitor data and privacy

>>ta1243+03
How about when it’s a local site, they don’t really care about EU traffic? It’s too much “pointless” effort to comply such as having EU servers to process user data, extra code to show the ugly cookie consent, and privacy policy and terms of service that would comply with GDPR.

>>Oras+35
Why would you bother at all?

If you are a local site by a local company on the other side of the world you don't need to block anyone, you just ignore foreign laws.

In the case of those news sites, though I suspect that most are owned by large multinational companies whose lawyers advised that blocking EU visitors is the only 100% sure way to avoid hypothetical retaliations by EU authorities.