> I genuinely don't mind ads if I know it's supporting the thing it's displaying ads on. I do. I'm pretty that sure there are other people who would rather not

> I genuinely don't mind ads if I know it's supporting the thing it's displaying ads on. I do. I'm pretty that sure there are other people who would rather not consume content if they can't do it without having ads shoved in their faces constantly. In fact, ads bother me irl more than online, since it's harder to avoid them. > All those cookie popups are clicked without being read (and they never will be read ever get, that behaviour has been established) Says you. Since the EU cookie popups are not required if you don't use third party cookies, having the popup is basically admitting you are selling out your users. As for the GDPR tracking opt-in popups -- most of the ones I've seen violate half of the GDPR requirements. Once the regulators start fining publishers for those violations, we might see an improvement. > I think at least _exploring_ this whole thing in a way that's balanced towards the entire internet ecosystem is way more thoughtful than a knee-jerk "block everything, privacy everything" response. Tbh, I don't really care about the for-profit content publishing part of the "internet ecosystem". Most of the interesting stuff I read is on personal sites with no ads or tracking anyway, so I don't even care if half the "publishers" disappear. I've yet to meet a single consumer who likes ads.