Sites are perfectly allowed to do just that... of course doing that they deprive themselves of an enormous, rich and growing market, a market that will surely be tackled by regional companies more respectful of their customers.

As a European, I hate this. It deprives me of choice in name of a privacy I don't care about. Google is welcome to track me.

The net effect is that half of the us newspapers I try to read don't allow me to even read the content.

I guess I need a VPN, Europe is slowly turning into China