

It sucks that they have to do this. But I prefer this than to simply lock out users from the affected countries.
(Looking at steam here, not bothering to create age verification, which in turn means in some countries some games are not visible/purchasable at all)
Besides that point: why tf do they even crawl lemmy. They could just as well create a “read only” instance with an account that subscribes to all communities … and the other instances would send their data. Oh, right, AI has to be as unethical as possible for most companies for some reason.