This is why we need to ban targeted advertising. In fact, I think ads should be 100% opt-in. The user has to accept them or it is illegal to show them to the user.

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mancerayder 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That's what a generic semi-forced opt in via JavaScript is for, as we learn from the cookie opt in nonsense of EU sites. It's compliance for compliance sake.

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SpicyLemonZest 4 hours ago | parent [-]

But what could an opt-in requirement for advertising possibly mean other than a compliance checkbox that 99% of users click through? It just seems like where you land if you start with the intuition that ad-supported platforms shouldn't be legal, realize that implementing that policy would ban all print media, and do your best to rescue it rather than abandon the idea as unworkable.

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yunwal 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s not like print media would cease to exist if ad-supported models were made illegal. They would move to subscriptions like they had in the past.

	▲	SpicyLemonZest 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Print media have always run ads near-universally, regardless of whether or not they have a subscription.