Nearly 1,200 US News Sites Still Not Available for EU Users After GDPR

[steven36]

More than three months after the European Union introduced the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), nearly 1,200 US-based news sites remain inaccessible to EU users.

 

 

More than three months after the European Union introduced the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), nearly 1,200 US-based news sites remain inaccessible to EU users.

 

This list includes some of the largest news sites in the US, such as the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Dallas News, Baltimore Sun, The Sun Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Newsday.

 

However, the vast majority of entries are small-time news sites that provide the bulk of local news reporting.

Three months later, few US sites have removed GDPR blocks

All websites act in the same way, showing an error message to users located in a country that's a member of the European Union. The message cites the introduction of the EU GDPR as the main reason why the site can't serve its content.

 

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Sorry EU countries - no LA Times for you!#GDPR #News #Media #Privacy pic.twitter.com/W6ovosZB7V

— Hash_Tigre (@hash_tigre) May 26, 2018

 

The GDPR requires websites to disclose their data collection practices in much more depth than before, and also requires websites to obtain an explicit permission to collect this data from visitors.

 

Further, the regulation also forces websites to provide a portal where users can see what data the website has collected about them, and provide a way for users to delete this data.

 

Companies that do not adhere to these policies risk huge fines that can go up to 4% of a company's annual revenue.

 

But despite the GDPR entering into effect three months ago, on May 26, many US news sites have not updated their portals to cater for EU users, opting to block them altogether.

 

The reasons are unknown, but many experts believe that small US local news outlets that publish stories relating to their local communities see little gains from investing large amounts of money into becoming GDPR-compatible just for the little EU traffic they receive.

 

As this situation is unlikely to change, it appears that EU users will remain closed out from a big chunk of the web.

How to avoid GDPR blocks

Users looking for a quick bypass of the GDPR blocks can use this lesser-known trick of adding "cache:" in front of the URL in the address bar, like so:

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cache:[original_URL_showing_GDPR_block_message]

 

This will serve a copy of the original article from Google or Bing's cache, bypassing the GDPR blocks.

 

Readers can consult the list of US news sites blocked to EU users here. It currently includes 1,182 sites. The list has been compiled by Joseph O'Connor, a UK-based developer. O'Connor has also open-sourced the PHP script he used to put together the list.

 

Earlier this year, a report by the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford revealed that the number of tracking cookies on EU news sites has gone down by 22%.

 

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[straycat19]

Why anyone would want to read U.S. news on U.S. sites is beyond me.  The reporting is much better on European sites like The Register or Daily Mail, which is where I read U.S. news when I want a full story.  Their reporting is much more in-depth and complete.

[jbleck]

4 minutes ago, straycat19 said:

Why anyone would want to read U.S. news on U.S. sites is beyond me.  The reporting is much better on European sites like The Register or Daily Mail, which is where I read U.S. news when I want a full story.  Their reporting is much more in-depth and complete.

To see and observe the way the US press publishes and interacts with the citizens. After all... they like being noticed...

The "shock title" with little content published by what seems to be a teenager is what i find myself reading sometimes. They don't take critics well or they don't approve my comments most times dammit! 

 

[steven36]

Most publishers  he names  its  up to the UK if they even stay in the EU if they is a hard Brexit i expect it to be serious effects on the UK they want be part of the GDPR anymore they will start going after UK sites too.

 

Even the ones that  can afford it in the USA,  you have to agree to there terms of service to access the site , so you have opt in, I know i use EU ips..   UK sites be full of trackers and things and they dont make you opt in , so its favoritism going on . Sites with a lot of money in the USA  can get around it and 78% of sites in the EU  are still use tracking cookies it only went down 22%.. Sites in Germany try to make Adblock Illegal they was using anti adblock long before Facebook started it.

[halvgris]

regions restrictions is so lame for many reasons.

 

i remember going to amc the walking dead's homepage and i was served

with ads for my region on a banner but got the message from their on-

line videoplayer that i was from the wrong region.

 

this wasn't even a full program merely a trailer for the coming series.

 

again these large companies hbo netflix amazon etc go aginst each other

now you ned to pay 10 usd here and 10 usd there yet one program might

be solely on the provider you don't have. that cause people to pirate it and

everyone looses on it.

 

a warning for european customers subscribeing to amazon prime, they geo-

restrict series and even worse if you watch a serie that is not geo-locked they

will recommend a serie that is locked. still you play the same for service.

 

EDIT: abc changed to amc like steven26 pointed out

[steven36]

21 minutes ago, halvgris said:

regions restrictions is so lame for many reasons.

 

i remember going to abc the walking dead's homepage and i was served

with ads for my region on a banner but got the message from their on-

line videoplayer that i was from the wrong region.

 

this wasn't even a full program merely a trailer for the coming series.

 

again these large companies hbo netflix amazon etc go aginst each other

now you ned to pay 10 usd here and 10 usd there yet one program might

be solely on the provider you don't have. that cause people to pirate it and

everyone looses on it.

 

a warning for european customers subscribeing to amazon prime, they geo-

restrict series and even worse if you watch a serie that is not geo-locked they

will recommend a serie that is locked. still you play the same for service.

Just Pirate the the stuff or use IPTV   Even in the USA you cant watch AMC for free  legally its not ABC.

 

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You won't (legally) find The Walking Dead for free, but you can save by choosing where to shop. A cable- or satellite-TV subscription may not be the best way to watch if you want to catch up. Netflix is the winner for bingeing, with Seasons 1 to 7 (along with everything else Netflix offers) available, starting at $7.99 per month. Season 9, by the way, will debut on AMC on October 7

. https://www.tomsguide.com/us/where-watch-walking-dead-online,news-17723.html

 

Same as i cant watch BBC Uk in my region legally even though  i have Kodi addons that are not geo blocked for its not legal for me too watch it now they require a license .  Most Aussie /NZ channels require a vpn and some even you have to use Drm in kodi to watch them. If the vpn ip is blocked it want work no ways.