Something just occurred to me: it seems like a lot of the outrage over ads and privacy is just intellectual elitism: "Sure, I am too aware of these techniques

Something just occurred to me: it seems like a lot of the outrage over ads and privacy is just intellectual elitism: "Sure, I am too aware of these techniques and mentally strong to ever be influenced by marketing, but what about the rest of humanity? Google will control their minds like a virus and soon destroy the world!"