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Then we'll just get more pointless legislation that led to the cookie banner and ads/trackers will be trivially cloaked/proxied to the point where any publisher has full deniability.

We'll look back at the good old days when ads were mostly just banner ads.

Idea: Start paying for content and support the sites that offer this option. The entire concept of adblocking lives on borrowed time: hoping your content creators are making enough money off the suckers that don't use adblockers.

It's hard for me to envision legislation that wouldn't just be a clusterfuck as the government encroaches further onto our internet.



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