The founder of AdBlock Plus weighs in on PPA:
Privacy on the web is fundamentally broken, for at least 90% of the population. Advertising on the web is fundamentally broken, for at least 90% of the population.
Yet any attempt to improve this situation is met with fierce resistance by the lucky 10% who know how to navigate their way around the falltraps. Because the internet shouldn’t have tracking! The internet shouldn’t have ads! And any step towards a compromise is a capital offense. I mean, if it slightly benefits the advertisers as well, then it must be evil.
It seems that no solution short of eliminating tracking and advertising on the web altogether is going to be accepted. That we live with an ad-supported web and that fact of life cannot be wished away or change overnight – who cares?
And every attempt to improve the status quo even marginally inevitably fails. So the horribly broken state we have today prevails.
This is so frustrating. I’m just happy I no longer have anything to do with that…
Pff. Fuck him. The minute advertisers whined Do Not Track into being a glorified radio button for the equivalent of an unplugged controller, it’s been up and stuck for advertisers afaic. I will run the strongest ad-blocks I can, fuzz my browser fingerprint as hard as I can, and do everything in my power to spoil my track behind me. Yes, if it’s advancing the worst vices of capitalism, it’s fucking evil.
Just to be fair/clear. DNT came about as a way to get advertisers to cool their boots. So it came about after the fact.