We know that advertising can work and make money without arbitrary JS. When there’s a clear existence proof, is it really wrong to say that a problem could be solved by not doing the problematic behavior?

Of course reality doesn’t work that way. Ad companies aren’t going to change, because they like money and don’t give a shit about users.

We’re stuck in a local minimum. It’s insane. It could be easily fixed if everyone just stopped doing the insane things. And they won’t stop.