How we lost communication to entertainment

Re:How we lost communication to entertainment by __MatrixMan__ on Saturday December 27, 2025 @11:27PM (#46408446)

A good start would be to make it a criminal offence to sell the right to execute code on somebody's device without their consent. And to tax into oblivion any service that can't function without such consent.

We can work our way up to eliminating all targeted advertising later, lets start with the stuff that's indistinguishable from malware.

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Re:How we lost communication to entertainment by no-name-here on Friday January 02, 2026 @03:33AM (#46462675)

> the right to execute code on somebody’s device

Would that include serving text, image, or video ads?

> without their consent

If someone explicitly chose an ad-supported option (instead of paying for an ad-free version, likely with an accompanying ToS) would that count as consent? Or what would consent mean?

Also, if we implemented what you said, would you imagine that much of today’s internet/websites (which are ad-supported) would go away, or become paywalled?

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