[_heimdall]

> My household dropped Netflix and Prime over their silliness. We currently still have Disney until they get too greedy. And that is just streaming. Regular net is soooo much worse without a way to scrub the ads away.

Isn't that a good example of consumers exercising their right to not patronize companies they don't agree with? You didn't need a law stopping you from using Prime, and you don't have a right to use it, you just decided you didn't like their product anymore.

The blindspot missing in a ban of advertising is what that does to the viability and price of a product. Prime and Netflix as it is today is built based partly on the advertising revenue. Presumably if that money disappears the product would get worse, disappear, or become more expensive.

[jcynix]

>Regular net is soooo much worse without a way to scrub the ads away.

Hmm, there are ways: I browse with NoScript and unlock Origin installed and see almost no ads. If a website doesn't work and I really need to visit it for some reason, I selectively enable part of the JS they want me to load. Other sites simply don't get my attention.

[A4ET8a8uTh0]

It works for now and note that there already were some attempts to have solutions like origin stop working[1]. Unsuccessful, for now, but the intent is there and I am starting to get tired of the whack a mole.

[1]https://www.pcmag.com/news/rip-ublock-origin-google-proceeds...