I used to whitelist The Deck. It didn't stop them from going under. The last refuge I actually have is advocating for public policy to make data collection with

I used to whitelist The Deck. It didn't stop them from going under. The last refuge I actually have is advocating for public policy to make data collection without explicit consent illegal. Otherwise the shortlist of sites I can use without engaging with tracking behavior is extremely short. Edit: I think this idea of the ad-blocking user as perpetual freeloader is a nice fiction that helps ad company execs sleep at night. If you ask companies why they don't ask for explicit consent to tracking, the answer is often: "because no one would agree to it". But there's this game being played where ad companies pretend that no "good" user minds what they're doing as they continue to push the envelope of what's acceptable.