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People calling the Sun worthless scum are missing the point, which is that this shit ought to be illegal.
It's a UK company.
They are under no obligation to comply with GDPR.
Yahoo JP actually shut out all foreign (or at least EU) traffic. They could do the same here if they'd want to
IIRC, this is allowed under GDPR. At least in my country it doesn't fall under the broad GDPR and a court ordered the company that did it first here to preliminary stop doing it while it's under investigation. But they're doing it again, which leads me to believe the court didn't find any legal basis to ban it.
Just a side note, they are obligated to follow GDPR when dealing with EU customers. Even the US has to (or shut down the access for EU users as many US news sites did).
As I understand it, the "UK GDPR" is basically the same thing as the EU's GDPR. They need to maintain "adequacy" to continue to comply with the UK's laws and guidelines, so they can't simply block all non-UK traffic.
Yep, there's been no repeal of the GDPR laws, so they are still officially on the books in the UK.
The S*n us a far right shitrag
gotta milk those last 5 readers
Why call it "privacy policy", when it clearly is "no privacy policy"?
deny the parasite profit
Scum practice by a scum company. Nothing of value is lost by not going there.
I don't even think this is top 5 worst things they've done.
G^e^reed for sure!
Skipping incurs penalty
The Sun is a garbage Buzzfeed wannabe anyway. Much better news sites out there
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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