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Niko, your implementation may not be right like others have mentioned (in that it triggers GDPR on your customers), but I fully support this methodology.

If it helps, I use AppEngine for my App which already provides geolocation information in the IP and my app blocks it the moment it receives the request. Users will only see a re-direction to a notice relating to GDPR and what they'll need to do if they still want to access the site.

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Thanks! You're right, there are many ways to achieve this goal, I just wanted to provide a drop-in solution that's independent of the infrastructure.

You might as well be selling an image saying "EU customers go away!" With regards to GDPR compliance it's just as good in that, at best, you're showing intent not to serve EU customers (yet you still don't actually block requests, you just serve them different content and log all the same data).

Or an image saying "We don't care about keeping your personal data safe".

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