Conflicting ideals on the Guardian website

I'm doing my pre-reading activity for the long-read on the article about technology invading our privacy, and then I realized something that I found kind of funny and a bit hypocritical on the Guardian Website. The whole webpage is littered with Google Ads

First of all, Google and all of its subsidiaries are notorious for storing and studying the personal information of its ridiculously humongous user base. Second of all, in a way the literal existence of Google Ads directly contrasts what this article is trying to say. Google looks at its user's personal information and history to select specific advertisements to show to people browsing on websites.

I realize that the article author probably didn't have control over whether or not those ads would appear on the page, but I still found it a bit comedic, hypocritical, and even a tad worrisome, which made it worth sharing/pointing out.

Liam McDougal