If the NYT online ads were as benign as their print ads with respect to tracking and profiling me, I wouldn&#x27;t block them.<p>I also wonder why they treat the front page of their online site so different than the front page of the paper. Today I opened nytimes.com and 1&#x2F;2 the window was filled with a Hilton ad. Have they ever filled have the front page (or even just the half above the fold) of the paper version with an ad?<p>So I&#x27;m not a fundamentalist that thinks advertising is evil. I probably am a fundamentalist when it comes to the ad-tech that watches what I do to opaquely build a profile around me.