Look man, I'm a regular HN reader and even I don't buy into this. Are ads really the problem they are made out to be here? I'm asking because I don't mind and h

Look man, I'm a regular HN reader and even I don't buy into this. Are ads really the problem they are made out to be here? I'm asking because I don't mind and haven't mind about seeing an ad in years. In fact, I think they are perfectly good compromise when it comes to monetizing a website. Even HN has ads for gods sake. I even was okay with those old porn ads in The Pirate Bay or in 4chan, etc. Sure, if it's too much of that it can get annoying but whatever. On the other hand, the vast majority of people don't even know what RSS is and haven't even noticed a change in Twitter in the last few years. I'm sure most of them, believe it or not, aren't even aware of the transition to Elon Musk. I'm not saying that you're necessarily wrong, but perhaps you and the tech industry in general are vastly overestimating a extremely niche opinion and a "nothingburger". For example, cookies. Now we have extremely annoying cookie banners everywhere, when they didn't matter at all. Why? Because if I'm using an icognito browser, what are they going to track? Do you think I REALLY care? What are they going to do with that? Track me and offer me catered ads? I don't think "they" can, but even if they do, big fucking deal. I'm a lot more worried about Know Your Customer policies on everything, or social media platforms (or even hosting platforms) deplatforming you if they don't like your opinion, or the FBI planting child porn on your site if they want to take it down. Do you think I'll worry about an AD out of all things?