What is the point of geo-restriction? - eviltoast

Some websites are available only from US. Or some streaming service allows certain content only from US.

Why does such geo restriction exist? What is the benefit for the company to implement this?

  • ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This is a big one. It’s a lot of work to implement GDPR and sometimes it’s easier to disallow traffic from Europe than to re-architect your back end to keep European data on European servers, allow for users to request data deletion, etc.