> Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots. This creates a need for human users to prove to websites that they're human, sometimes through tasks like challenges or logins.
So if this goes forward, websites will be able to call the web environment integrity API to check you are a proper ad-watching human before serving content.
Jamie Kellner's words still ring true today. When corporations make content available supported by advertisements, they are assuming a moral obligation on your part to see those advertisements. Violating that obligation is felony contempt of business model.
Not a lawyer, but in my understanding, the core property of a contract is that both sides are aware of it, in particular of their obligations in the contract. There must also be a defined moment the contract is concluded.
This is specifically not the case with ads: Ad-supported services are frequently advertised as "for free", not in the sense that ads are the "payment". Even if they were, they would be unlike any other business transaction as the service provider is free to change the "price" (i.e. amount of ads shown) at any time.
That's not even considering all the situations where you're subjected to ads without receiving any kind of service - or where something that you paid money for suddenly starts to show you ads too.
Felony contempt of business model indeed, as well as theft of assumed future profits!