I think the big problem is choice. I have no choice but to accept ads on every blippin’ website (if I use a vanilla browser setup) and be tracked. The choice is

I think the big problem is choice. I have no choice but to accept ads on every blippin’ website (if I use a vanilla browser setup) and be tracked. The choice is taken away from me/us and thats the core of the problem. The early internet was way more diverse in content, less converged, and one reason for that is there was no/less incessant need yet to ‘grab eyeballs’ and push for clicks. That www hasn’t fully gone, but its just burried under the tons and tons of marketing fluff. Both content provider and user have become the poorer because of it.