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Why do US based sites refuse to show the content of their websites in EU countries ?

William Gaatjes

William Gaatjes

Lifer
I just wanted to read this article :

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-asian-americans-diabetes-20160419-story.html
And this is what i see :

Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.
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I also had a notification earlier today when looking up a recipe for a food dish and clicking the website link in google results , that the content is not available in my country.
 
Because they're dicks, and copyright maximalists. Your location doesn't meet some arbitrary location guidelines, so fuck you. It's bureaucracy run amuck. If you were to ask them, they couldn't come up with a reasonable answer. IOW, there is no reason. Everybody follows the steps, but has no idea why they do so.
 
Sounds like legal issues with showing certain stories or such overseas.

Welcome to the world of lawyers. 😀
 
Copyright issues with US's and EU's laws would be my guess. Personally I think in this Age of the Internet, content should be available everywhere.
 
lxskllr said:
Because they're dicks, and copyright maximalists. Your location doesn't meet some arbitrary location guidelines, so fuck you. It's bureaucracy run amuck. If you were to ask them, they couldn't come up with a reasonable answer. IOW, there is no reason. Everybody follows the steps, but has no idea why they do so.
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Pretty much this. It's quite retarded. I noticed Youtube doing it a lot now too where a lot of videos won't play if you're not in the states. Copyright/IP law is completely ridiculous now. It's not even about protecting artists from having their work ripped off anymore, it's just about some stupid bureaucracy BS and corporate interests.

A full mesh style unregulated internet with end to end encryption (so nobody in the middle can try to alter/block the data based on what it is) needs to happen.
 
whm1974 said:
Legal issues with showing a recipe for a food dish? Just who could have problem with that?
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Would not surprise me. The recipe is probably copyrighted or patented for use in the US only. Something about advertisers not wanting to advertise to other countries, applies too I think. So they just block off the whole site.

The Olympics are actually the worse for that. It's suppose to be an international event, yet half of the footage gets geoblocked. Something to do with advertisers not wanting their ads shown in other countries or something. There are ways around it, but it's the principle that's retarded.
 
The recipe was chicken tandoori, Indian(South west Asia) of origin.
It is really weird. I was hoping the internet would unite us all. But it is already falling apart.
 
William Gaatjes said:
I just wanted to read this article :

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-asian-americans-diabetes-20160419-story.html
And this is what i see :


I also had a notification earlier today when looking up a recipe for a food dish and clicking the website link in google results , that the content is not available in my country.
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cfenton said:
They probably aren't GDPR compliant yet and it's better for them to location block than to risk violating the law.
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Looks like it. The LA times was specifically mentioned as blocking people because of GDPR in this article (along with others)
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/25/tronc_chicago_tribune_la_times_gdpr_lock_out_eu_users/
 
Well, i do not if you guys and galls get this all the time but i am getting constant cookie and privacy text when i go to this forum. Especially when i am not logged into the forum.
It is like that for a month now.
It is not that i never pressed accept.
 
There has been a rise in "Commit to our cookies or die trying not to" messages. But to the OP, why not simply skirt the issue with VPN? I've done this for sites geo-blocking simple news to just seeing how sites like YouTube display their buffet of videos for foreign viewers.
 
BarkingGhostar said:
There has been a rise in "Commit to our cookies or die trying not to" messages. But to the OP, why not simply skirt the issue with VPN? I've done this for sites geo-blocking simple news to just seeing how sites like YouTube display their buffet of videos for foreign viewers.
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Actually what is up with that, so many sites have these huge warnings about using cookies, it's quite annoying. I've seen some that take up half the page and when you scroll it does not go away. That is a huge bad trend in general with lot of sites now, where they eat into screen real estate by having some annoying header that stays.
 
William Gaatjes said:
Well, i do not if you guys and galls get this all the time but i am getting constant cookie and privacy text when i go to this forum. Especially when i am not logged into the forum.
It is like that for a month now.
It is not that i never pressed accept.
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Red Squirrel said:
Actually what is up with that, so many sites have these huge warnings about using cookies, it's quite annoying. I've seen some that take up half the page and when you scroll it does not go away. That is a huge bad trend in general with lot of sites now, where they eat into screen real estate by having some annoying header that stays.
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It's like you two aren't reading the thread. Its GDPR compliance.


I'm really grouchy because my knee is playing up.
 
WelshBloke said:
It's like you two aren't reading the thread. Its GDPR compliance.


I'm really grouchy because my knee is playing up.
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Well, the thing is, for this forum i clicked accept already like a hundred times. But every time the message pops up.
With other sites or forums, i get the message once after clicking accept.
Of course, when i clear my cookies once in a while, all the cookie prompting messages will return again. But that makes sense because i have deleted the cookies.

I get that GDPR compliance requests that i read and understand the cookie use. But clicking accept once should be enough until i delete the cookie. Or is it that this forum deletes the cookie after closing my browser ?
Or is the adblocker that i use that the forum site doesn ot like?
 
William Gaatjes said:
Well, the thing is, for this forum i clicked accept already like a hundred times. But every time the message pops up.
With other sites or forums, i get the message once after clicking accept.
Of course, when i clear my cookies once in a while, all the cookie prompting messages will return again. But that makes sense because i have deleted the cookies.

I get that GDPR compliance requests that i read and understand the cookie use. But clicking accept once should be enough until i delete the cookie. Or is it that this forum deletes the cookie after closing my browser ?
Or is the adblocker that i use that the forum site doesn ot like?
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Not getting repeated popups in PC or Android based Chrome, in EU.
 
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