Plenty of people seem to genuinely believe that “personalized ads” are good for them.
Depending on the study, 0.16% to 7% want to get tracked.
https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2025-07/Pay_or_Okay_Repo...
No, in not making excuses for tracking and I do lots of stuff myself of avoid being tracked
I’m only responding to the false premise that there are no benefits. There are. You can just choose to believe they aren’t worth the cost. I believe they aren’t but I have friends who opt into all tracking and even register their presence with multiple apps. They believe they’ll make more positive connections
Exactly. From my experience: the times I've found an ad relevant and worth clicking is about one-to-a-gazillion. Maybe relevance is higher for others but that still doesn't necessarily translate to real value. (ie. your life was improved in any way)
Also, this all presumes the targeting actually works and the current sea ads for shoes I just bought disagree with that. It's all just spam.