To be fair, the founder of the business, Byju, used to be a very ordinary school teacher and then he built this whole thing. Not family-owned, nor born rich.

Fuck their business practices though

It’s not a business website, I opened it for some random math article.

If they aren’t doing business in the EU, they don’t need to comply with GDPR. While it technically protects EU citizens’ data everywhere, in practice it’s not possible to govern companies that are completely outside the EU.

Well actshually… Australia used to be run by right-wing nutjobs. The current mob in power are centrist nut jobs.

I would like to point the RWNJs finally got voted out in Oz last year (federal and most states). Of course Murdoch and co. are working hard to reverse that, but semi sane leadership is in place for at least a year or two more.

As with most things in the US, California has similar laws to the gdpr (though admittedly not as powerful), so a lot of websites are starting to change a bit in the US because of california.

China and Russia are dictatorships meaning they do whatever the fucknthey like and if you don’t like it you might become suicidal.

This is actually a particularly important point. The nature of the EU is laden with bureaucracy. Combined with the wide range of cultures, and the rotation of staff, it makes bribing enough people to get your way difficult. You end up needing people in multiple countries to deal with it, and the rotations make long term deals difficult.

The end result is that bribing EU bureaucracy is like trying to stop a river with just hands. It’s far less effective, letting the EU be a lot more effective (if slow).

There’s a reason so many big business interests want to break up the EU.

Actually, and I’m quite proud of this, the LGPD was already being discussed before the EU’s GDPR. It may not look like it, but Brazil is at the forefront of digital protection and privacy.

Poor strawman mate. You don’t have to be “a geoblocking fan,” you can despise it, while also not enabling privacy invasive firms.

cutting people off from important information just because they live in a geographical region that doesn’t allow secret malware.

I think most disagree with your argument, that you need to tolerate ‘secret malware’ to access important information. That information can’t be THAT important or else it could be found elsewhere, completely without malware.

You always have the option of a VPN. That and private mode is probably a good best practice for a site like this anyway.

Unfortunately you aren’t automatically entitled to this information that I imagine mostly comes from private for-profit companies.

See, while I don’t like the invasiveness of it, that’s also their business model. If they put it behind a subscription instead, it wouldn’t be right to say “this information is important and needs to be available, stop charging for it,” when charging for it is part of why they provide it. Private companies have a right to not do business with those that won’t pay for their services, even if that payment is your data.

Europeans (and everyone, morally) have a right to privacy that conflicts with the method of payment. This website resolved that, if it can’t get paid in it’s chosen form, it won’t provide its service. That’s fine. I don’t support this decision, but it’s not

If this information is vital to the public, that’s a separate issue entirely, and it needs to be available in some form that isn’t sold. We can’t rely on a private entity not employed by a government to do this of its own free will.

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If you use a EU proxy for the site in OPs screenshot you would presumably just get the same message.

No thanks, I like fast internet.

Wish it was that simple. The problem with the internet, as a whole, is someone figured out they can collect just about everything from your data, with or without cookies, and sell it to big companies.

Everything is about that almighty dollar. We are now the product under the guise of being a consumer.

You want to complain about access being blocked because of where you live, fine just makes you an easy commodity to sell to someone else.

Tbf, you want complete anonymity, stay off the web, don’t use bank accounts or credit cards, not even those like cash app, become a hermit and tell everyone to fuck off as you are not for sale.

In reality, it’s policies, like the GDPR, that are actually looking out for your best interest. Here in America the arguement would be “they’re taking away my freedom” or “the government is overreaching” instead of “Hey, someone actually cares about my privacy in the government!”

Like I have said in another group, people complain about their privacy online and then use the likes of chrome for their browser. We say we care about our privacy, but in the end we are a tool that doesn’t do the job we need done.

Cookies aren’t nearly the only form of tracking.

Don’t forget the centrists, who want a happy medium between you being a product for someone else’s money, and having privacy. Because, you know, a lack of privacy is totally cool or something…

Serving ads to Europeans is doing business in the EU, and the US and EU have reciprocal civil enforcement mechanisms.

The OP is irritated for some reason, I guess they really wanted that insight.

Looks like its a educational learning app.

I literally linked to it!

I got to agree. Maybe they just don’t understand or agree to what compliance involves. Company could be busy making widgets and not want to risk lawsuits from a region they don’t directly do business with anyway.

Cease using that slogan! Disney has lobbied a law into action that prohibits you from saying this!

The US culture is willing to sacrifice a lot to uphold the US way of doing free speech, which is absolutely fine. Yet, how worthy are those sacrifices when we see how “free speech l” gets eroded for profit and profit alone?