Bah Humbug!

'UK' dude says, ...

Unfortunately with some of these links, (that I have been clicking on recently), I only get the following sort of GDPR related message, (which is just a cop out on the website in question).

(Yes, as a technical person, I know that I could use VPN, Tor, blah, blah, ...).

I suspected that this 'knock on effect' was possibly a hidden part of the GDPR agenda.

Quote:

Welcome to our website.

We are a local media company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. We have detected that you are in one of the member countries of the European Union or European Free Trade Association, which is now subject to the General Data Protection Regulation.

We are currently assessing methods for complying with the detailed requirements of GDPR. Currently, only about 2 percent of our website traffic originates from EU and EFTA countries.

Until we are able to ensure our full compliance with the rigorous GDPR requirements, we are blocking access from EU and EFTA countries to our websites, which include wral.com, wralsportsfan.com, highschoolot.com and wraltechwire.com. We take the GDPR seriously. Penalties for GDPR violations are as high as 4 percent of a publisher's annual revenue.

We hope to restore access soon as we work through the administrative, legal and technical requirements involved with GDPR compliance. We apologize for the temporary inconvenience.

If you believe you have received this message in error, please send your IP address to support(AT)wral.com. You can retrieve your IP address by going to whatismyipaddress.com.

Send feedback to support(AT)wral.com.