AFAIK it’s about paying for the lack of tracking, not ads per se. Untargeted ads in the free version are perfectly legal. It’s paywalling the privacy options that isn’t.

For all intents and purposes it seems to be a remake. It’s just stupidly named, so it makes the confusing stuff even more confusing.

EDIT: Apparently it’s far closer to a remake than a remaster after all.

I think their heart is in the right place but they didn’t think it through. The way I understand virtue signalling, it needs to include intentional deception.

This right here. For example I’m rolling my eyes at people replacing their Kindles posthaste now. If it still works, it’s a great piece of hardware and replacing it now for the sake of changing the brand only creates more waste. A Kindle one already owns is more green and anti-capitalistic than whatever replacement one might get. It’s borderline virtue signalling.

It’s too hard to change anything if one believes in laws, rules and the general idea of a fair justice. They don’t have this limitation.

We want other options to be allowed to exist. This is “you just want everyone to be gay/trans/whatever” all over again.