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Wait: block all visitors from Europe instead of making changes to your site?

Nobody had an issue with that? I can’t believe this hasn’t been commented on.

The linked post is definitely satire.

So embarrassed that I didn’t pick up on that the first time. I assumed they were kidding sometimes but not the whole thing.

Poe's law in action, not sure what this says about Medium content in general.

1. The article is satire.

2. This is HackerNews. 99% of us work for companies with free products subsidized by overt tracking and complete disregard of user privacy.

> 99% of us work for companies with free products subsidized by overt tracking and complete disregard of user privacy.

Indeed, also security but that's for another rant.