My perfect world would have a law against advertising in general. If someone's paying you to say something, it's a conflict of interest and illegal.
Hopefully, the vacuum of people needing to know things would result in better independent Product reviews.
And the vacuum of not spending 30% of your company budget on advertising would hopefully lead to sinking prices and people being more willing to spend on things that were previously funded by advertising.
> If someone's paying you to say something, it's a conflict of interest and illegal.
That already misses a huge problem though, I don't pay Mozilla for Firefox and I don't pay most online sites and services that gobble up my data and sell it off.
Sure, but I don't think that really changes anything here. The idea of a law that bans advertising when the customer pays you would miss a huge portion of advertising and data collection including Firefox.
Is the concern you want fixed only that paid products still collect and sell data?
I may have misunderstood you, but my read on the third paragraph was mainly that Firefox, in this case, could still have a free browser that collects and sells data. That rule would just add one more fsctor for them to consider if they ever want a paid browser, they both need a viable market and be willing to give up the option to sell data.
Hopefully, the vacuum of people needing to know things would result in better independent Product reviews.
And the vacuum of not spending 30% of your company budget on advertising would hopefully lead to sinking prices and people being more willing to spend on things that were previously funded by advertising.