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Ads don't have special access but because of their deployment across many different sites they get to track a much broader amount of your web activity than any

Ads don't have special access but because of their deployment across many different sites they get to track a much broader amount of your web activity than any individual site which in turn makes them a bigger privacy threat. I don't block ads but I do use NoScript which means I rarely see them. It is increasingly common for pages to load scripts from dozens of different providers and those sites I generally turn away from.

diminoten 13y ago
Privacy threat? Because they want to serve you content you actually like? No, I don't think you know what a privacy threat actually is, then. If you want to hobble around the web like it's 1995, that's your business. If you want access to content that's paid for by adverts, however, you need to be counted. That's the only way that content will be produced at all. You're not only harming the content producer, you're also harming yourself by lowering the number of interesting things in this world.