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I'm convinced that position:sticky wouldn't exist if browsers weren't beholden to advertising traffic. Someone needs to create a rival foundation to Mozilla, with some advertising and transaction processing chops, figure out how to sustain enough revenue to tax deduct enough smart promotion, and ideally, I'd personally wish, fork Pale Moon.

The German Zugabeverordnung law was very strict against any "free" commercial offer tied to the obscuring of linked purchases. But instead of being extended to embrace the creation of sponsored funnels providing free entertainment websites, as is probably now long forgotten but fallacious doctrine, the internet instead made "free", "free".

https://marketinglaw.osborneclarke.com/marketing-techniques/...

https://competition-attorneys.de/lawyer/zugabeverordnung-ger...

The law was scrapped in 2004, unlikely [ed] not [/ed] coincidentally with establishing peak web commercial libertarian lobbying, the more political and in earnest post dotbomb.