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BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)

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329 points beeburrt | 3 comments | 16 May 25 06:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.607s | source
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Kiro ◴[16 May 25 08:05 UTC] No.44002892[source]▶
Dumb question but I don't expect any service to support all countries, so what makes BuyMeACoffee different? My service (which also involves money) only supports one country in the world.
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1. makeitdouble ◴[16 May 25 08:16 UTC] No.44002948[source]▶
The dropping part.

It's not "fair", but people get pissed when you can compare before/after. And to a reason, it means some users relying on that support are now left SOL, when they could have made different choices if the service couldn't handle them from the start.

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2. prmoustache ◴[16 May 25 10:33 UTC] No.44003729[source]▶
I have the feeling that most companies that are conducting businesses in both USA in EU are operating illegally anyway. It looks to me like US cloud act and EU GDPR and Data acts are making this incompatible and there is no way to offer a service to both area without breaking any law.
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3. AnthonyMouse ◴[16 May 25 19:10 UTC] No.44008844[source]▶
The way this is supposed to work is that you have a subsidiary in the EU that follows the laws in the EU and a subsidiary in the US that follows the laws in the US and then the US subsidiary isn't in the EU or vice versa, so there is no conflict because each entity is only subject to one set of laws or the other.

But now we have governments opprobriously trying to impose laws on entities outside of their jurisdiction.