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This is (kind of) an argument in favor of tracking though.
Nobody wants to be bombarded with ads for the same product, but advertisers want to advertise to as many people as possible. If you can't track who you've shown the ad to in the past few days and who you haven't, you're almost certainly going to annoy people by spamming them with the same ad, but if you can track who's seen it then you can limit the number, which is pretty objectively better for everyone.
I'm not saying this means the other negative parts of tracking are suddenly ok, just that it's an interesting side-effect.
Proposal: No tracking and also no ads. Then nobody has to worry about who has or hasn’t seen it.
If you can convince people to pay for the media they consume in other ways, sure, but until then sites need to pay journalists, actors and writers somehow, otherwise we'd be buried in AI, user-generated and low-effort slop with far fewer alternatives. I think that's worse than having ads personally, but that's a pragmatic rather than idealistic view.