> ALL banner advertising would be affected by this change.
No, it wouldn't. That's what several people in this discussion have been trying to explain.
Banners hosted locally and not by a third party service probably won't be affected at all.
Even banners hosted by a third party service won't be affected if they chose their content based only on the nature of the site where the banner would appear.
The only people who will lose out are the ad networks that track users as they move around different sites, and their business model and working practices are incompatible with my ethics (and, apparently, those of many other people, including those governing at EU level).
We should lose the conditionals, by the way. This has already been approved at EU level, and it will therefore become law throughout the EU in due course unless something dramatic happens. Given that the only people I've seen objecting even slightly seem to be those who are currently doing exactly the dubious things that these measures are intended to prohibit, "something dramatic" seems unlikely.
> Without that ability it will be hard (impossible?) to rate limit campaigns to users, thus increasing the cost effectiveness to the advertiser and eventually hurting publishers as advertising money is diverted elsewhere.
Why can't the advertisers simply re-evaluate the rates they pay per impression based on the expected cost/benefit under the new model?
Or just adopt one of the many pricing models that is based on actual results like CPC, instead of assuming that CPM is always going to be the right answer?