This is great. I'm already spamming the right arrow key as soon as I realize a video has segued into a "I sold my soul to..." bit. I appreciate creators who quietly make such segments a consistent length and clearly cue them, so I can accurately guess how long to skip :)
As for "but why???", well, I believe advertising is fundamentally broken because it has no feedback loop. It's "throw money at the wall and see what sticks."
Analytics and THE COOKIE MONSTER YEETS ALL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION tries to handwave a feedback loop into existence (with measurability, the appearance of substance etc), but that doesn't really close the loop either.
IMO, the complexity of modern privacy invasion is solely a function of the ridiculously high flotation point advertising confers onto everything it touches. I argue that the apparent success of that complexity is partly due to the fact that we simply cannot reason about it end-to-end, and have to reduce our analysis down to simple numerical metrics such as "X is making 1 billion dollars a year" ("wow that sounds successful"); and partly due to the fact that throwing trillions of dollars at a problem will cause parts of that problem to move of the way regardless of how fundamentally unsolvable that problem is, which can give the appearance that the problem is tractable when it is not.
Advertising might be the single most attractive thing in the world (a meta-correlation I find endlessly amusing) right now, but I can't help but see it as infinitely wide and shallow. What scares me is that it's growing faster than people's attempts to properly probe its depths; this will eventually peter out and-- oops, someone just popped the balloon.
Perhaps I could acquire sufficient sponsorship to fund a move to Mars before that happens...?
In the meantime, because of the lack of a proper feedback loop, there's a massive disconnect between the fact that the ad industry is growing on one side, while uBlock Origin has "10,000,000+" users on the other.