That's like diving into a conversation about CCTV proliferation with "just wear a ski mask". It's inconvenient, hinders daily activities, makes you look like a criminal, and might not even help. It's unreasonable.
>It was probably a mistake to equivocate the kind of data gathering that ad-tech companies do with the kind that oppressive governments do.
Given that oppressive governments can obtain the data from the ad-tech companies... no, not really.