The advertising company you mentioned is Cambridge Analytica, right? If so, and not something else, I’d like to add this shit has come to light and exploded in 2018. We have to wonder how many others went dark after that and what shit they have come up with since then, in these 5 years.

To be fair I do use the basic level of protection, ad blockers and what have you. So if they are trying to influence me with ads, well, I’m not seeing them.

But I don’t go the full 3 layers of ad block with a pihole and a VPN.