European here. I can't view some major newspapers in the US such as the LA Times. Smallers ones like the Virginia Gazette and Daily Press are also verboten for me.

Many US newspapers now redirect to tronc.com for a standard disclaimer.

For example, the LA Times redirects to http://www.tronc.com/gdpr/latimes.com/, which says this.

Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.

An universal ban like this is exactly the needed cure

Ditto. I was in Europe for a month this summer, and a disturbingly large amount of pages were unavailable to me.

> I already hit error 451 when trying to read some local news in US when browsing from Europe

The Frederick News Post of Frederick, Maryland does this.

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/