I've always felt that advertising is fundamentally a bad thing for the Internet. I feel this strongly when I experience episodes of privacy-invading ad targetin

I've always felt that advertising is fundamentally a bad thing for the Internet. I feel this strongly when I experience episodes of privacy-invading ad targeting. I set my privacy preferences in Google settings to not show me ads based on my interests and I'm quite diligent about opting out of sending cookie data to third parties. It's like I'm protesting in my own small way to try to minimize any benefit the ad ecosystem gets from me. However, sometimes I do get ads for products or services that are so appropriate and tempting that I temporarily put aside my high-minded ideals ;-)