I think some of what you're seeing is that any of this kind of stuff exists at all. That any level of monitoring and tracking behavior exists without clear and

I think some of what you're seeing is that any of this kind of stuff exists at all. That any level of monitoring and tracking behavior exists without clear and explicit permission from the human/agent; The attempts at making this behavior the status quo and "just how things are" when in fact it is not; The gaslighting with threats of the Internet itself going away if we don't cede to the advertisers; the scolding those opposed as freeloading, small-business haters, as if ads are the only source of remuneration left to exist. It's that sort of stuff that fuels some of the more pronounced objections, I suspect. It's what fuels mine. Edit: I'm still bad at HN formatting.