The only remaining case for awful advertising that I can see just collapses to a case for arbitrary extortion… which is just… okay you don’t believe there will be open code.
So, if the advertising is there by default, that means that the advertiser is already “extorting” my attention, and has already shown a willingness to extort money from me to make the advertising go away.
More correctly, the advertiser already seems to see my attention is their property, rather than mine. If that’s how they view it, the price of selling it back to me isn’t going to be determined by what they make off the ads. It’s going to be determined by how much they think I will pay to be left alone, at least unless I have some other leverage. If you want to call that extortion, then, fine, I believe there’ll be extortion. I don’t believe they’ll think of themselves as engaging in extortion, though.
So, if the advertising is there by default, that means that the advertiser is already “extorting” my attention, and has already shown a willingness to extort money from me to make the advertising go away.
More correctly, the advertiser already seems to see my attention is their property, rather than mine. If that’s how they view it, the price of selling it back to me isn’t going to be determined by what they make off the ads. It’s going to be determined by how much they think I will pay to be left alone, at least unless I have some other leverage. If you want to call that extortion, then, fine, I believe there’ll be extortion. I don’t believe they’ll think of themselves as engaging in extortion, though.
How would you expect to “fight it”?