But from your first sentence I gather you think my comment is trying to justify the current business practices of ad driven tech companies. It is not. I fundamentally disagree with that revenue model, at least how it primarily exists today, for many reasons.

One can work at changing the system which allows such business models to exist but typically that is much harder than working within the system to mitigate some of its effects on the individual. Working to change the system typically has much wider effects while working within the system typically has much narrower effects (one must opt in) and as such some or many may be left out.

My comment is about what one pragmatically might do when working within the system.