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?
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?
Sometimes it’s because of certain laws from the EU for example that they don’t want to follow like the GDPR for example. Other times it’s because of licensing in case of streaming services.
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.