Ads can be useful when they are optimized for users and not for advertiser/ad platform. I do agree with you about the deluding part though. I was (as a user) a

Ads can be useful when they are optimized for users and not for advertiser/ad platform. I do agree with you about the deluding part though. I was (as a user) all for hyper-personalization of ads on all platforms when I worked in ads. Since I’m not longer working in ads, I’m more skeptical and value privacy a lot more. Honestly, the core problem is that we can’t trust the platforms selling the ads.