You don't need to ban advertising, you just need to ban paying for advertising. That doesn't harm free speech. When there's no money to be made the problem will sort itself out.

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initramfs2 8 hours ago | parent [-]

That's gonna probably just create a bunch of loopholes or hacks like paying with favors instead of cash

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mrob 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Loopholes can be addressed on a case-by-case basis. A solution being imperfect is not a good reason to leave the problem completely unaddressed.

	▲	MBCook 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This by the way is my understanding of why the EU writes laws the way they do. If they just banned infinite scrolling someone would come up with something equivalent that works slightly differently. Now they need a whole new law. It’s just constant whack-a-mole. So instead they seem to ban goals. Your thing accomplishes that goal? It’s banned. It’s a pretty different way than how we seem to do things in the US. But I can see upsides.

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coldtea 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's the same in every domain when there's a profit. Doesn't mean laws and bans don't reduce the related activity dramatically.