just that the TV commercial looks back at you through the TV and the TV follows you around everywhere, wherever you go, whatever you do, taking note of everything to get to know every single detail about you, every interest, every prejudice, every weakness of yours, to get to know you like no person, no matter how close to you does, like not even yourself do to use that information to influence you most effectively to the TV channel’s and the advertiser’s advantage, to manipulate you, to sell this information about you to other companies like insurances who use the power that this knowledge provides over you to extract every last cent of money from you, to sell you.
There’s nothing wrong refusing auto-play video (ads) and tracking (ads) from running on your device using your bandwidth.
The issue is that services and newspaper came to rely on advertising platforms and those have become worse and more intrusive, to the point a significant portion of users are now blocking them.
I like the approach taken by EFF’s Privacy Badger. It blocks scripts and cookies that track you despite the presence of an opt-out signal in the browser. It happens to block a number of ad platforms incidentally. But it offer a mechanism to unblock hosts once they honor tracking opt-out. cf https://privacybadger.org/#How-is-Privacy-Badger-different-from-Disconnect%2C-Adblock-Plus%2C-Ghostery%2C-and-other-blocking-extensions
lovely exposition