I think the issue here is the law, but malicious compliance to that law. Which is bad. The web should not be an ad marketplace that just happens to have conten

I think the issue here is the law, but malicious compliance to that law. Which is bad. The web should not be an ad marketplace that just happens to have content. The favoured rhetoric of the giant corps is that ads pay for the free content, which is balderdash. It's because these gigantic websites are little more than platforms sucking the air out of the web. You and I produce and consume the actual content. We can't allow middlemen to hold us hostage because they want more ad revenue.