Or maybe the industry will be shaken up so hard that people are forced to think of alternatives to ads. Some cities actually managed to ban billboards, I hope that GDPR will have a similar effect on the Web.
The greed of a couple bad apples has gone so out of hand that the web is basically unusable without adblockers - while I actually work for a creative agency, as a private person I say that the current state is no longer tolerable...
> imagine big red letters warning about big problems if the 'yes' button is not clicked
Oh I assume and hope the regulators will strike down any such measures. They did, for example, also strike out mandatory newsletter acceptances (i.e. those where you could not create an account without "consenting" into handing your data over to advertising).