| https://eyeo.com, home to the world's most installed ad-blocker, AdBlock+, has an acceptable ads policy already in place; whilst Google is trying to tackle the data-collection problem via the controversial privacy-sandbox proposal [0]. Safari [1] and Firefox [2] seem to have the right idea abt it all, whilst Brave is trying a radically new approach [3]. As for the online services needing ads to keep lights on: 1. The pervasive dragnet that the online ad-industry has birthed is a massive reason behind content-blocking. 2. Ads are freq used to spread source of malware, scareware, spyware, ransomware, fake-news among other totally unreasonable things. 3. The end-users should be free to chose what they want to view and what they don't. The service providers are free to refuse service. 4. The tracking that goes on is so covert that it seems to me that it is borderline unethical [4]. 5. The online ads business is a scam [5]? --- [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767891 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20700914 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21497488 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525592 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336762 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13992576 |