- Not target any advertisements about your business to EU countries.
- Only offer your site in your local language and/or English.
- Don't register your site in an EU TLD.
At that point, as far as I can tell (and of course I'm not a lawyer), you have no EU presence and even the GDPR admits that it doesn't apply to you. Presumably these conditions apply to the vast majority of small businesses where dealing with random claims of extra-territorial jurisdiction is just a waste of time.
This being HN, I'm sure somebody will be ecstatic to correct me if the above is wrong.
I am sorry for the tone, but this is exactly the kind of answer I didn't need. I didn't ask "how to work around GDPR without complying to it". My question was "is putting a disclaimer and having to click and confirm that you aren't a EU citizen enough to guarantee me no trouble from EU?"
I guess my implicit answer was "I think so -- in fact, you probably don't even need to do that much". (Though you want to replace "EU citizen" with "EU resident".) And of course nothing will _guarantee_ no trouble.
- Incorporate your business outside the EU.
- Have no offices in the EU.
- Reside outside the EU.
- Not visit the EU (?).
- Not employ any EU residents.
- Not target any advertisements about your business to EU countries.
- Only offer your site in your local language and/or English.
- Don't register your site in an EU TLD.
At that point, as far as I can tell (and of course I'm not a lawyer), you have no EU presence and even the GDPR admits that it doesn't apply to you. Presumably these conditions apply to the vast majority of small businesses where dealing with random claims of extra-territorial jurisdiction is just a waste of time.
This being HN, I'm sure somebody will be ecstatic to correct me if the above is wrong.