That would prevent 1.4 billion people from ad-blocking. Not sure if we want to use these kind of blanket measures as a first response.

The logic here is that it's better to block 1 country and keep it working for everyone else than to leave it as it is and break it for everyone.

It's not ideal, but until the problem is fixed/better solutions are found, I think it's a good "first response".

No, it would block 1.4 billion people from that one specific URL.

I think the free plan allows this. Seems an easy solution.

I'll have a huge impact on anything making legitimate use of the list. Adblockers on sensible browsers will stop working etc.

It may be easy, and it may even be the only option, but it's a bad one that will need some thought from the maintainers I expect.

The only thought it would require would be thought they should have been putting into their fetching strategy in the first place.