Advertising free software is the solution to the privacy problem? I don't see how to take that seriously. The scale of the problem is a little large for that, don't you think, even if advertising weren't the quintessence of the problem's toolkit.

You reworded some sentences in response to my comments. I think the invitation was to rethinking rather than rewording, but I may not have understood my own suggestions well enough to have given clear advice. Like the consent fallacy, this account continues to assume that our collective welfare should be based entirely on individual consumption decisions made by individuals in whose heuristics for making those decisions you don't show much trust. Your desire to be ruled by the market isn't justified, any more than your consumers' decisions are, to be sure, but the irony seems not to imperil the smoothness of the conclusion. Is the best approach to the social dominance of harmful or dangerous products a stronger advertising campaign for safe products? I don't think there's anyone on earth who thinks so, including you, but here you are advocating that conclusion.