There is a massive difference between cooperating with an advertiser and buying one.
> any proposal should be judged primarily on its merits rather than its authors
Sure. But when we're discussing hypothetical proposals, track record is all we've got.
Why should we cooperate when advertisers and others didn't cooperate and respect the Do Not Track (DNT) header?
I want zero tracking and zero user profiling. I'm okay with context advertising. If the internet can't survive without profiling, then it's got a worse business model than broadcast TV.
A public interest group would give no quarter to advertisers.
It's not longer the case. It was a few years ago, but not nowadays.
It should be but it is in bed with Google and founded by dirty money.
I mean, there seem to be some resistance internally, but the leadership seem to be bought.