Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites

To solve the root problem, we need to steer away from the ad-based revenue model.

We use websites for "free" paying with data. A cynical take on that is "if you are not a customer, you are a product".

If there were no adverts, quite a few things would change:

* much less incentive to track users

* way less distractions

* higher quality content (since it is less about clickbaits and shear volume of visitors)

Yes, it means paying for stuff. Would love to pay per visit or type spent, provided it is easy.

Tracking will always be more profitable, because that allows you to know whom to target exactly. It’s the fundamental question of business, who are my customers etc.

Tracking should be considered equivalent to putting an electronic tracking into every customer’s pocket when they visit your brick and mortar store. Then the question of privacy becomes more obvious. It is simply not acceptable to track people this deeply and invade their privacy so much.