How about consumers paying a little extra for their device? The way it's going, add sponsored big tech is dieing because click fraud detection is becoming too expensive. Either we give up privacy and track every user, or we let bots have at it, stop targeting ads to users and bill advertisers on bandwidth.

I uh.. I think that was the (sarcastic) point.

Ideally it would be funded by the personal wealth of the people who've profited from the current situation.

Parent is sarcastic