[indymike]

> There seems to be a really strong disdain on HN for AdTech in general, which I think is misguided, and comes fundamentally from a "web consumer" mentality.

I think the disdain is against surveillance and invasive content.

> The current movement to avoid tracking is an extremely powerful centralizing force.

No, this is just removing the third party. If I'm on a Meta property seeing an ad served by Meta targeted by my data from using Meta, then there's not third party.