From HN discussion - "This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22124929)
This is GDPR in action. Wow.
@tomasino Also GDPR in action: American sites flat up refusing to load from European IP addresses (I find the idea of meatspace political boundaries starting to manifest as real boundaries in cyberspace terrifying), and gigantic cookie popups on 95% of the web (which those of us with aggressive cookie-discarding policies have to see every. single. time.).
@solderpunk the cookie popup thingies are in litigation already. Hopefully that will get better over time, but who knows. The wall to the US is annoying as well. Still I think the situation is better with GDPR than without
@solderpunk
The technology is already here: server side includes. But apparently that's too much for big websites to handle... 🙄
@tomasino