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by SahAssar 597 days ago
Nope, consent cannot be a prerequisite of using the service/software, if it is available in the EU (or UK, since they grandfathered in GDPR after brexit) it must be usable with or without consent.

That is the reason many local non-EU ad-supported businesses (like local papers in the US) outright block all EU traffic. For example if I go to https://www.chicagotribune.com/ I get a blank page saying "This content is not available in your region".

Manjaro could do something similar by just blocking EU users from downloading it.