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more targeted ads means more spying. That's bad news in theory and in practice.
There's also a difference between me being a good target for an ad they are going to run and that being a useful ad for me to see. Google optimizes stuff for the advertisers, not for the users.
If it actually tried to find ads for the users instead of finding users for the ads, maybe it would be okay. But that will never happen.
I would rather have the ads based on the content I am viewing rather than me.
It obviously isn't a necessity looking at how many Lemmy servers are running on nothing but good will