[ang_cire]

If you use Google search or Gmail, they read everything you write, and aggregate that into data packages not just for ads to show you, but even aggregated demographic data to sell for ad targeting.

Regardless of whether the ads reach you or not, you as a data point add to the count that make the package enticing to advertisers, so you're helping them sell the package anyways.

[WarmWash]

If google gives you full access to all their services for the $0.001 annually they get from you being part of an aggregate dataset of trillions of points, that's...a cause for outrage?

Ain't nobody buying user data on users who block all ads and trackers, it's worth almost nothing (what are you going to do, show them ads?). Fun aside, the reason why people get so many awful scam and malware ads when they turn off their ad-blocker is exactly because no other advertiser will bid on them, because they have no ad-profile/ad-value.

[ang_cire]

It's not one single aggregate dataset, it's hundreds or thousands of targeted ones.

And yes, people don't like being monetized without the company doing it being transparent about how and what they're doing.

An ad blocker has nothing to do with protecting you from Google fingerprinting and categorizing you.