Whenever I hear a lobbyist or business person talk about “choice” or “freedom” it’s usually bad for people....

You’ve forgotten to include politicians.

I think it's reasonable to think of politicians as mouthpieces for lobbyists - most of them will become lobbyists after losing a reelection anyways.

Solution would be pop ups asking for each choice on the device....kind of like the way ad agencies like it.

People don't use browsers to look at ads. So from a user standpoint ads shouldn't be there in the first place.

People don't go to the grocery store to give their money to the cashiers. So from a user standpoint the cash registers shouldn't be there in the first place.

The ads typically are paying for what the users are going to the website for. I don't like it, but most users seem to prefer visiting sites with ads over sites they have to pay directly for. I hate how intrusive and abusive many ads can be, block ads on many sites, pay to subscribe to some sites, and hope other models succeed someday, but have to acknowledge that ads do serve a purpose.

I agree that ads serve their purpose. Their proceeds allow websites to exist and motive entrepreneurs to create them in the first place.

My point is indeed that people go to grocery stores to buy food, not to spend money. Doesn't mean cashiers aren't justified.

> Their proceeds allow websites to exist and motive entrepreneurs to create them in the first place.

The desperation about monetising ads usually makes them crappy website creators. They would just fill pages with low quality articles propped up by SEO. I prefer the sources that don't earn money on advertising for quality of content.

Everything Criteo says is just terrible. They're about as borderline legal as it gets. I'm 100% expecting them to get massive GDPR related fines in 2020.

Apple doesn't promote choice, but it's not because Intelligent Tracking Prevention is on by default. (Also, it's not an "ad-blocking" feature…)