I might recomment a middle ground before banning all internet advertising.
replyWhat if we limited advertising to images which don't set tracking cookies, so you would get something sort of like banner headlines. Maybe say the image had to be served from the same place as the rest of the content so you don't get to track readers with image trackers
You make the argument from the consumer side, it's hard to argue, but digital systems are far more profitable. So that's how we got the world we got.
replyIt turns out that "makes the most money for a small amount of people" is pretty much the same as "makes everything shitty for everyone else". It's time that we either stop accepting "most profitable" as an excuse for making things worse or start regulating/punishing bad behavior until it becomes so costly that it's no longer profitable.
replyYour response comes packaged with a pill that I believe many people would not swallow:
If it makes more profit then we should do it.
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