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Just pass laws that an individual can legally opt out from ads. Then you wouldn't have companies charging you more for "ad free" (even corps think ads are a punishment (or maybe even yet another revenue stream)).
Corps like facebook have entire departments filled with assholes trying to be maliciously compliant with your laws.
Like "as the law required, we opened WhatsApp to third party apps".
Then you go to watch this third party app, and it's birdchat, never heard before, with only 200 global downloads, with more devs than actual users, launched like one week earlier. And if WhatsApp users want to chat with those dozens of birdchat users, they need to opt-in in a hidden toggle buried in the settings. And when they toggle the opt-in they need to confirm thrice on some scary "are you sure?" dialogs. I don't think that a single message will be exchanged between the platforms in the whole 2026
So for your anti ads laws, they will argue "this is not advertising, is simply suggesting a feature or product..."
Yes please. Or at the very minimum let us ban sections of advertising. My wife and I hate horror movies, but when we watch YouTube we are bombarded with horror ads. We have a young child that we are working hard to not expose to certain imagery. Let us ban fucking horror movie ads.
That is also on Google side. I also got an ad for a horror movie during a numberblocks video. It should not be hard to have a check "if the video is designed for kids, then ads can't be violent, graphic, deceiving or predatory"