You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

They should be illegal no matter what? How would commerce function? How would one make a new business known? I hate ads too, but I don't think your extreme stance stands a chance at popularity.

They don't have ads where I live, and as a result they're about as fast as the counter.

Of course cars are more problematic. That doesn't diminish any problems with scooters. The thing is they are regulated. A car driver has obligations written in law.

In my home country they can't even decide what to classify e-scooters as.

If I were to try to ride a bike as people do with scooters I would be stopped - not unlikely by the police. Would I park it the same way some responsible (and presumably drunk) citizen would throw it in the river.

I think the reason why this space is unregulated in my home country is because bikers use their common sense, because biking is a lot harder than using a scooter. I wouldn't go 25km/h in a pedestrian zone because sooner or later I would probably hit someone. When I am on a scooter I have to really think before I drive.

I don't think cars and scooters compete for the same space. Pedestrians, bikes and scooters compete. The vast majority of people going on scooters do so instead of walking, biking or going on public transport.

If I could decide all city centres would be void of cars and people could bike and scooter on the old car roads to their hearts delight. Until then I would prefer scooters to be driven responisbly, either through regulation or common sense.

In my 34 years alive I have never been hit by a bike, yet in the last 3.4 months I have been hit by a acooter twice. Once in the back on a pedestrian street when the driver turned a corner and wasn't expecting me to stand at a bus stop. The other time on a bike because the scooter driver did not follow the most basic traffic regulations ("the rule of right" - the obligation to let someone coming from the right to pass if no other instructions are given).

I disagree.

McDonald's hamburgers and fries are way less greasy than most fast food joints, and the kiosk allows easily reducing the quantity of sauce in the burgers and salt in the fries. As such, it can be relatively healthy from a macronutrients perspective, while satisfying fast food cravings.

The vegetable salads are very fresh and pretty good, which can accommodate people on strict diets.

The kiosks also free workers to clean up tables more frequently and assist customers in various ways.

Of course this can vary from location to location, especially as so many McDonald's are franchised. But the actual experience at my local spots is enjoyable nowadays.

In the case of photopea - as soon as I land on the homepage and before i consent to ANYTHING:

  github
  google analytics
  facebook
  stackpath
  wikimedia
  google adwords
  google fonts
  amazon ads
  (a few others I dont recognise)
  and, of course, the companies that you use to collect "consent"...

Even if i disable ALL the options on the "consent" module and reload the page, it STILL loads ALL of these. In fact, it seems to load even more! For example, I create a document, then it loads (in ADDITION to the above):

  criteo
  33across
  openx
  adxpremium
  setupad
  4dex
  adnxs
  casalemedia
  pubmatic
  emxdgt
  rubiconproject
  districtm
  lijit

They are at the very least tracking that i visited your site. They are tracking the URLs that are active. As I click around and use the app, it is triggering more interaction with those services - so clearly they are monitoring actions/events too. This is just on YOUR site.

These networks are able to identify me by a cookie (and other techniques), so they can compile my activity on YOUR site into a log of my activities across multiple sites which they "provide their ads" on. They can absolutely identify you as an individual - google, facebook, etc, are ones that people have INTENTIONALLY given their names too, and many of these other networks sell/lease the data to others to allow them to provide their own identity link.

Furthermore, these 3rd party "scripts" have access to the entire page content too. They can read my email address should I register. They can even capture my password if they were so configured (or were in themselves hacked to do so).

Bear in mind i did NOT consent to any of this when I landed on your site, and even when i specifically removed "consent" via the form on your landing page, i was STILL being tracked by ALL those I mention above.

THIS is why people have blockers, etc. I dont mind if you have an image with a link to some advertisers product/service/whatever. What I care about it that my every action on your site is providing additional data for these companies to mine and build a secret profile of my browsing habits.

EDIT: I browsed without an ad blocker to compile this behaviour. I feel dirty.