Seems like the only way people want to make money these days is through invasive advertising without the end-user&#x27;s explicit consent. Granted the expectation of free software is driving most of this, but it starts a vicious cycle because those who get annoyed with them develop countermeasures, which the creator responds to with more aggressive ads, ad infinitum.<p>It does start explaining some of the highly controversial telemetry MS was collecting in Win10 - turning everyone&#x27;s PCs into billboards.