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It's going to be interesting to see how the world changes if it was easy to just disable all types of tracking.

Most people, if asked would just block all ads on TV, radio, print, and web.

But then prices for products themselves would skyrocket. There wouldn't be any free webapps, etc.

For example, Facebook would have to charge money.

It might make the world a better place. Might not.

If I were forced to be though I suspect it would be a good thing

Context based advertising doesn’t require cookies or storing/transmitting personal information. Advertising would be just fine.

Facebook netted $18 billion in 2019, there’s a long ways to go before they aren’t making money.

> There wouldn't be any free webapps, etc.

Sure there would. The pattern would be "pay for more features", the free version being more of a limited demo.

This used to be a common pattern among Android apps, even without ads on the free version in the early days.