Safari is generally in favor of facilitating sites making money from ads, as long as the privacy impact is minimal. For example, they proposed and implemented

Safari is generally in favor of facilitating sites making money from ads, as long as the privacy impact is minimal. For example, they proposed and implemented https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-attribution-for-the-web/ https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-att.... So I could see them implementing Topics if they were convinced that its specific tradeoff of better monetization for publishers vs leaking some bits about the user was worth it.