> Irrelevant. Normal ads are barely profitable. Proof? > The EU does not understand what it takes to run a modern web service. Demagoguery > That profit can

> Irrelevant. Normal ads are barely profitable. Proof? > The EU does not understand what it takes to run a modern web service. Demagoguery > That profit can be obtained either with targeted ads or locking poor people out of the internet. Those are your options. False dichotomy based on feelings > How much VC money does Google use again? These are literally your words: "A horde of startups would take up the banner, and as soon as they ran out of VC money". Also, Google was extremely immensely profitable in the era before large-scale data harvesting. > This is a blind law that pays no attention to the practicality of running services the world relies on. Demagoguery. "We can't exist without large-scale invasive and pervasive tracking" is not a given. It's a narrative pushed by the industry with literally zero proof. If your business for some reason cannot exist without that, good riddance.