Ad blocking

I've whitelisted two sites: reddit, and duckduckgo. In both cases I have zero knowledge of how honest they are about their data collection and transfer, it was just based on a vague sense that they aren't evil.

I have no way of knowing how to judge if Wired or the NYT uses "honorable" ad networks. I suspect Wired and the NYT also have no way of knowing that.

It's like taking a phone call on the couch at night, and some random person is asking me all kinds of personal data. I don't know what they're going to do with it after the call, and I'm not even sure which of the data is dangerous to release.