EasyDNS has an interesting position on GDPR compliance for businesses not based in the EU:
"All prior history of internet governance would have us taking the position that being a Canadian company we are going to operate by Canadian law, and not by European law."
Also:
"Sure, Google and Facebook and Apple do have to worry about this, because they’ve domiciled their foreign HQ’s in Ireland so that they can shelter all that foreign revenue from US taxation."
https://easydns.com/blog/2018/05/28/gdrp-why-should-any-non-euro-companies-care/
@starbreaker They have to obey by EU standards in cases where they are serving EU customers really.
Still... implementing GDPR is just good manners at this point.
@starbreaker The Verge seems to think that they have solved GDPR by this banner. They haven't.
Techcrunch has a better understanding in this regard, because the key to GDPR is for the people to have the ability to OPT-OUT of tracking.
@mareklach Fair enough. I found EasyDNS' post interesting because they aren't talking about adtech, but the WHOIS database, which stores names and contact details for everybody who rents a domain name.
@starbreaker Oooh, right! In that case implementing GDPR would mean I think just informing customers about all the details with regards to how these information are stored and where, and what information is stored.
They would also have to delete a user account IMMEDIATELY upon a user's request without keeping their data in a backup for however many days.
It really wouldn't be that hard to comply for them.
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@techbolt @starbreaker If that’s the case that’s not GDPR. GDPR must allow you to click to opt-out of tracking while still being able to use the site.
Ah ... see this article on Guardian... what they say about tumblr is exactly what happened to me...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/sites-block-eu-users-before-gdpr-takes-effect
@techbolt @mareklach @starbreaker Accept ad tracking or leave our site and delete your cookies.
Even though the ad-tracking is not a necessary feature for reading a plain-text article on the site.
@lordbowlich @techbolt @mareklach
I'd like to see site operators try to come to my house and force me to accept their shitty adtech. I could deal with them the same way I deal with Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses who ignore the "no soliciting" and "beware of cat" signs by my door.
"Beware of cats" ... that got me a chuckle...😀😁
I have never thought of trying that thinking of Magic the secret agent cuddlebug that he is.... but I am feeling inspired now...
@techbolt @mareklach @lordbowlich My cats like to escape and run into the front garden, thus the sign.
@starbreaker @mareklach If they have no EU assets, they can get fined but good luck to the EU on actually collecting that money.
@mareklach I agree with the second point.
As to the first: if I ran Google I would have started closing all offices outside the US the second I knew about GDPR, repatriating all revenues into the US and paying US taxes, stop censoring search results in China, and count on Uncle Sam to shield Google from foreign law enforcement. 🖕
Of course, if I ran Google I wouldn't have allowed the business to become so heavily dependent on adtech in the first fucking place. 
@starbreaker Well, Google can still operate android and play store in EU, where the purchase is a consentual buyer's decision.
But you're right, they should have to scale down their add business in the EU, because only few people will agree with having ads served to them.
Perhaps they could serve very generic ads without tracking users, I am not sure...
@mareklach There's no reason they couldn't.
For hell's sake, I could do that myself. Want to advertise on my website? Gimme a hundred bucks and I'll run your link and up to 500 characters of copy at the top of every page on my site, right under the nav menu.
I could rig that shit up in less than an hour, and it wouldn't require ANY javascript.
If I can manage it, there's no excuse for Google to be unable to provide dumb ads.
@mareklach That's my understanding as well, but it'll be interesting to see how it works out in court.