Ad Tracking and Privacy

The advertising industry complaining should be named in disputes like this. What would they claim, that it would violate their privacy? I don't think they would complain too loudly. But this industry on the whole is toxic. They are not demonized, they just like to spy on people and invade their privacy. It also provides no real benefit. Shutting it down with regulation would not be a huge loss as those that do want to advertise will find another way.

Don't let facts get in the way of anti-ad and anti-tracking hysteria.

You can have still have ads without invasive tracking, they just might not be as effective. If the difference in effectiveness is enough to make Google, etc unprofitable than maybe there is an argument to be made that it is necessary. If it means they make 10% less profit, people would probably prefer privacy.

Advertising isn't the big problem (IMHO), it's the tracking and surveillance. We give up too much for what we get back.

"Fraud" presupposes a surveillance advertising ecosystem. The data is not being used to verify transactions, but to figure out if your ad impression should count as bogus or real. Change the business model and a lot of incentive for this highly invasive tracking goes away.

It makes no sense. All these ads and tracking and all that is to make people buy stuff.If people are ready to give you money, don't try to stop them!

Ads are fine, it's the all-encompassing privacy-stripping tracking that is done to squeeze every bit of money possible.All of the listed services will still be there, they just won't be making excess profits for their owners.

Sponsors are the way ads should work. Ads aren't the problem, tracking is.

They can still make plebty of money from ads, they just can't track users who don't agree to be tracked.

The problem is not Ads themselves, it's the fact that they inject perverse incentives into the entire tech ecosystem.To maximize your advertising revenue, you need to track your users as effectively as possible. This:a) Reduces user privacy. Even recent developments like FLoC, which appear to be pro-privacy on the surface, are really just yet another datapoint with which to violate the privacy of users.b) Reduces performance. It's easy to blame trendy bloated tech stacks for t