[OpieCunningham]

This would be equivalent if the act of having a browser meant that the advertisers could interrupt you at any time your browser is open.

Exactly my point. There's a law that prohibits the relatively minor annoyance of being interrupted. But there is no law that prohibits the rather serious issue of privacy invasion.

If the law was necessary in the first case, where you could simply leave your phone off the hook to completely avoid being interrupted, there's no rational justification that the law is not also necessary in the second case, where, as you stated, you could (somehow!) pre-filter all your website usage to avoid having your privacy invaded.

(I'm done with the "is Mozilla run by Jesus" discussion - you have your opinion based on your view and I have a different opinion based on my view - I suspect neither will convince the other based on repetition of views.)