Not normal at all, and not even typical for GFM which has automatically refunded donors in the past when they shut down a campaign for TOS or legal reasons.

The biggest takeaway from this story, which I can't emphasize enough, is GFM forcing people to opt-in to get a refund, within an arbitrary time period.

GFM is doing this because they still want to collect the fee for a multi-million dollar campaign. Shady shit.

But all that is being buried over some dumb culture war trucker protest.