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If you have negligible EU revenue and no intentions of changing that, it makes no sense to expend any effort on complying with GDPR.

Blocking EU users is a smart business choice to avoid any possible legal issues and far easier than compliance.

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fine; but it’s also a red flag for companies that do some pretty terrible things with your data... id prefer not to use a service that gives off those red flags than to chance it. we all have choices, and if a company chooses to represent itself in a shady looking way, i’ll choose to take my business elsewhere.

Or it means... they are a small business with no EU customers.

Those are not in the scope of the GDPR anyway, as per Recital 23.

What if a EU sitizen uses a VPN to use a non GDPR conform service? What's with the California Online Privacy Protection Act? You have to comply to that. And from there it's not such a big step to comply to GDPR. Not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Privacy_Protection_Act

Edit: Apprently, there is a new one on its way: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/06/28/ho...

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