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> > What are some good non-tracking & non-intrusive ad providers?

> You don't need to look far. You can simply tell Adsense[1] to serve up non-personalised ads

This discussion describes exactly the problem. How long has this tracking consent law been there now??

And it's just an option in Adsense?!!!

So whenever I see a cookie banner, you can assume they are simply too greedy to flip the switch.

Clearly the adtech and adtech-supporting industry hasn't even slightly bothered to look for alternatives, instead opting to annoy the public with banners. It's pure propaganda in the hope that the annoyance will turn into defeat, and somehow they manage to turn people's disgust towards the EU law instead of them, simply continuing to do their useless crap business and pretending the EU got their hands tied ... when there's a literal boolean switch to tell their shit to behave.



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