> No you wouldn't. You might be hard-minded enough to try and commit to it, but instead you'd almost certainly just stop reading any news...then go back to aggr

> No you wouldn't. You might be hard-minded enough to try and commit to it, but instead you'd almost certainly just stop reading any news...then go back to aggregators/blogs whatever. Yes I would. I do soft boycotts of all music that isn't Creative Commons, and movies by major media companies. I've listened to almost exclusively free music for years. (Libre music for close to 6 mo.) I still go to movies sometimes, but who cares? The point of a boycott isn't necessarily to hurt a company's revenue, it's also to drive change in consumption habits. I'm not trying to quit the normal web altogether, I'm just saying that if there were ONE news website that didn't have tracking software installed, I would switch to it as my default news source. I can't say for sure if I would donate to articles via a bitcoin link, but I would imagine it would be optional. HN is nice, but it's just an aggregator. Even though it doesn't have tracking software, everything that it links to does. EDIT: Oh, and I meant to say, I have indeed switched to a dumbphone, and I use a VPN. I still use bank related services, but I try to use bitcoin when I can. I have no illusions about its anonymity, I just try to vote with my feet and my dollars. Just because there are a lot of consumers who don't change their consumption habits doesn't mean that some won't.