> ads should be entirely disallowed from everywhere, except for catalogues, printed and online. I've been saying this for a few years now, but that's only part

> ads should be entirely disallowed from everywhere, except for catalogues, printed and online. I've been saying this for a few years now, but that's only part of a Terminal Solution[tm]. I wouldn't disallow online ads, because done sensibly (https://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/random/no-stalking.html https://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/random/no-stalking.html) they could happily coexist with everything else. Here's the more heretic take: make the core EU take the universal one - any and all data on an individual is ALWAYS the property of the person in question. No exceptions. Any third part storing a copy of it is merely a guardian of the data, not its owner. Then require for every single use of that data to compensate the individual.[ß] That flips the incentives, because all of a sudden every data processing round costs you real money that you have to pay out. Not in amortised compute costs, but in actual payouts. In a strange twist, the sums themselves don't need to be particularly large. The sheer overhead of requiring accurate accounting, auditable records, and all the extra back-office operations to make it possible to repay people at a global scale is expensive enough to transform the practice of hoarding personal information from an asset into a liability with capital L. In other words: if you want to advertise to me, you need to pay me for the privilege of wasting my time, my bandwidth, my electricity and my screen real estate. Through the nose, if needed. ß: I'm willing to make an exception to legal hard requirements. But unless you're a government conducting their necessary activities, you pay.