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It's a UK company.
They are under no obligation to comply with GDPR.
Yahoo JP actually shut out all foreign (or at least EU) traffic. They could do the same here if they'd want to
IIRC, this is allowed under GDPR. At least in my country it doesn't fall under the broad GDPR and a court ordered the company that did it first here to preliminary stop doing it while it's under investigation. But they're doing it again, which leads me to believe the court didn't find any legal basis to ban it.
Just a side note, they are obligated to follow GDPR when dealing with EU customers. Even the US has to (or shut down the access for EU users as many US news sites did).
Like I mentioned with Yahoo.co.jp
As I understand it, the "UK GDPR" is basically the same thing as the EU's GDPR. They need to maintain "adequacy" to continue to comply with the UK's laws and guidelines, so they can't simply block all non-UK traffic.
Yep, there's been no repeal of the GDPR laws, so they are still officially on the books in the UK.