Nemo157
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It's not something I would do personally, and would be something I'd put down as a black mark against using a library as a dependency, but it's nowhere near as bad as doing the same thing on a public API.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/e2e-integrity/
It looks like they've taken the FF addon down and archived the source repo though.
This bit is actually the opposite. All tracking _must_ be opt-in, therefore by blocking the pop-up and not opting-in the website cannot track you.
It's only for the websites which are broken when not opting-in that it accepts the policy (which AIUI is itself a violation of the GDPR).