According to Meta, their personalized advertising alone generates over $0.5 trillion of economic activity per year. Why should I care that they make a boatload

According to Meta, their personalized advertising alone generates over $0.5 trillion of economic activity per year. Why should I care that they make a boatload of money while making the life of everyone else crappier? Advertising turns everything into shit. Crapware pre-installed onto your brand-new phone or laptop [1]? Advertising. Pervasive tracking added to Windows? Generating profiles for advertising. Smart TVs sending regular screengrabs to Samba TV? Analytics for advertising. Like your $2000 smart fridge? It's going to be much worse because Samsung is piloting advertising. Every tech product is getting infected by this disease, both shoving unwanted ads into your face and tracking your pervasively. Of course, someone is going to argue that we cannot have 'free' products without advertising. In the end the consumer is paying for advertising as part of (increased) product prices.