[oliveremberton]

"advertising is a big chunk but Google have other products"

96% of Google's 2011 revenue came from ads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Advertising

"commercial news still sells paper and has television slots"

Magazine and newspaper sales continue to collapse: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/aug/08/us-pr...

I appreciate you don't like ads; I'm not a big fan either (not that this is what the law is about). But consider the implications of it not becoming viable.

And for the record my company doesn't advertise anything. We just want to be able to use non-invasive features of the Internet like every other country.

[eckyptang]

Ok perhaps Google will disappear as well? I can't say I use any of their products or services at all, so I'm not that bothered.

I don't have a problem with advertising.

I think the real issue here is that cookies are just shit.