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About the same as I felt about popup ads when it was a thing. Eventually these will be reliably filtered by ad blockers I guess.

In more philosophical terms, how am I supposed to feel about profit-optimizing websites that I don't want to pay for choosing to be shitty to me? Meh.

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Is there a project like that or should we start a gdpr blocker? Let's say it will have a database of websites with a way to block the popup on each of them.

There's https://easylist.to – might want to start a new list in this format or look for existing ones on github.

I'd welcome an extension that would mark links to websites that block EU web users. It's quite annoying to click links only to be told "fuck off".

Anyway it's not so simple, as links are not what they used to be anymore either on many websites. All those shorteners and opaque tracking redirects... bleh.

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