Because it's their paying job to do it? I think they're called influencers now.

You can always opt out of ads for, say 20 euro/month. /sarcasm

So they can serve ads and spy on you, of course.

Naah, they just ran out of programmers and none of the monkey know how to code. It's that simple.

A small number. Like in 1 for every car. And that person must be always connected and see everything the car sees in order to be abler to advise.

Hmm, are you implying that crypto is just a finite resource and no more crypto is being produced?

And a lot of them seems to be at Y Combinator.

Idiocracy was just a movie, not a rulebook!

Why do you think they are talking about Joe Average? Their customers are those paying for the ads to be shown.

pass a law.

PC, fear of Karens boycotting them, greed, 'if everybody else gets away with it, why won't we?'...

Yes, starting with root access to any mobile so you can install a proper firewall and a system level ad blocker.
But that would defeat the whole idea of a personal spying device, right?

Mozilla likes to remove/block some options in about:config from time to time.

Yeap, for now. I fear in the near future it will be unavoidable,

Because is not AI but LLM? As in Large Language Model?