#SurveillanceCapitalism is harmful, that doesn't mean privacy-respecting advertising is a beneficial. The whole point of advertising is to distract the target audience and to change how they are thinking. This is sold to the highest bidder, and is mostly not in the recipient's interest. Important services like journalism are funded this way. We don't have to put up with this anymore, direct funding has real promise, for example: OpenCollective, Brave Browser, Patreon, WNYC, ProPublica, Liberapay