That sounds like a lot of work for what could be covered by self-destructing cookies, spoofing your user-agent, and in the worst case using Tor (which for me is

That sounds like a lot of work for what could be covered by self-destructing cookies, spoofing your user-agent, and in the worst case using Tor (which for me is a keyboard shortcut in Brave). I really don't think the extra hassle of VMs is worth it -- these are ad companies trying to fingerprint you, not state actors using zero-days on you. Personally, I dream of a future where 90% of content is delivered over RSS or similar and the middle man (bloated web pages) are cut out entirely.