I wish ad-supported services could look at my average usage (# of pages I’ve viewed, ads I’ve seen, etc), and give me an option to directly pay them the same amount they would have charged the advertisers for my slice of views/clicks/etc. No ads for me, they get paid. Win win.
I’m increasingly of the belief that incentive design is the most important problem to work on. Humans are good at overcoming obstacles when they have reason to do so — the worst problems tend to be ones of cooperation, not technological or scientific understanding.
Feature request @1Password: I have a problem of not remembering whether I used Facebook to sign in, or created an account. If the menu bar & chrome extension icon could change color or show a number to signal matching account, that will solve my problem!