"Ads and privacy are not fundamentally opposed" I agree with this. There was a (brief) period when website advertisements were simple, first party hosted imag

"Ads and privacy are not fundamentally opposed" I agree with this. There was a (brief) period when website advertisements were simple, first party hosted image files. IIRC, the first text ads on metafilter (2001 ?) were just strings in the same HTML file. You may like or dislike these things but they were not a privacy concern.