It's not just that; the US just doesn't believe much in regulating businesses, even if they're demonstrably harming society. They really believe "The Invisible Hand" will make everything better in the end.
> the US just doesn't believe much in regulating businesses
The US has tons of strange regulations like banning car manufacturers from selling cars themselves without a middleman or dictating what kind of showerheads are allowed to be sold.
The US is nothing if not inconsistent. The car-selling thing is due to state laws, not federal, and really the result of corruption: the dealerships are politically connected. The showerhead thing is due to environmentalism, so the US does sometimes make regulations with that impetus. There's no environmental aspect to banning targeted advertisements; it's purely social.
Look at your adblock stats. Now imagine most of these scripts probably would have loaded even more stuff if you didn't block them.
Depending on the sites I visit, I have like 30% of my web traffic removed.
AdBlock is an environmental thing!
And true, I don't wanna know how much these "real time bidding on ad space" things cost to operate, energy wise.
The US has tons of strange regulations like banning car manufacturers from selling cars themselves without a middleman or dictating what kind of showerheads are allowed to be sold.