[lrpublic]

This seems to be flawed logic, many EU devices have IP addresses from non EU address blocks.

Assuming there is any significant adoption of your proposed solution to avoid GDPR rules the likelyhood is EU citizens will use VPN or Proxy services to bypass the restrictions.

I don’t think the use of a VPN would remove the GDPR obligations on the data controller or data processor.

[icebraining]

It pretty much does. Sites are not automatically subject to the GDPR, even if they happen to be accessible, there must be some evidence that they intend to be used by users in the EU. Blocking it seems pretty good evidence that they don't.

See https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/