Interesting premise, but the analogy only holds if the ticket clowns that make the little Focazio children cry are owned by the carnival which (with the exception of Verizon/AOL and their ad tech infrastructure)they are not. The user injustice is the same (you’re paying for ad tech bloat), but punishing one part of the system for the sins of another — it’s more like refusing to pay for a meal at a diner that you have eaten because you already had to pay a toll to drive on the road. And while publishers have a responsibility to trim that bloat, their economics are not improved for it (except perhaps only very slightly in improved user experience). Think of the poor clowns and their starving children, who will feed the clowns?!