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I'd be happy to compromise on a single question, asked once per device:

Would you like advertisers to be able to track you (Yes) (No)

Of course advertisers know full well people will press No, and that will harm their income.

Exactly, although I would never hit yes I think it is important to give customers the opportunity to make their own, educated choice.

That isn’t consistent with the difference in dependency on advertising that occurs from app to app. It could be, however, that the device-level prompt could set the default for future app-level prompts. (That sounds annoying in retrospect, but maybe the right way.)

Another consideration is your point that preventing ads will harm advertisers’ income. In some cases, hurting income is an acceptable loss, but in others where the service is sustained by advertising, less so.

Perhaps another compromise could be to allow apps that do not accept the tracking prompt to only access basic functionality, with an explanation that the tracking supports their premium service. That’s a very different world for Facebook and others.

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