This comment always comes up and the answer is always the same. The dark patterns are straight up non-compliant with the law. The GDPR mandates about 0 of thos

This comment always comes up and the answer is always the same. The dark patterns are straight up non-compliant with the law. The GDPR mandates about 0 of those popups, it's the shitty companies that "comply" because they want to abuse your data that make those popups. Same with the foreign newspapers, they're _not_ required to block anything. They just chose to because it's somehow easier to block traffic than to not track them.