The author describes manually removing herself from being targeted, e.g. clicking "I don't want to see this ad" and "It's not relevant to me". Are we supposed t

The author describes manually removing herself from being targeted, e.g. clicking "I don't want to see this ad" and "It's not relevant to me". Are we supposed to be content with platforms that are unable to incorporate such manual feedback? I mean, we (the average user on HN) get pretty irate when software ignores or reverts config options we've previously set. I don't see how this is much different.