> This implies a right to access commercial websites for free, which cannot be reasonable, or only a choice between no access and payment, which also cannot be reasonable.

What do you mean the latter isn’t reasonable? It is perfectly reasonable to make your website only accessible to paying users.

> More broadly, this is a strange take in the EU: The same people that are happy to have to carry ID cards, to have "free speech" controlled, to have this, to have that, are up in arms at the thought of targeted ads.

Ignoring the obvious geopolitical spin to this: The EU considers privacy a right, i.e. something you can’t sell away in a contract, so I don’t see the issue with people being upset about their right to privacy being affected.

> The EU considers privacy a right, i.e. something you can’t sell away in a contract

You can sell your privacy in a contract in the EU. This actually highlights the incoherence here, and my point to some extent.

And there is no geopolitical spin since I am an EU citizen myself. It is just that I think that the EU is going to shit a little more every day.