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Hmm, I don't think that was the point of the movie. It was more about social media, and no adblocker in the world will save you from Facebook or Google or YouTube tracking your usage and recommending ex boyfriends or "rabbit hole" videos to you.

In fact, with the exception of one scene, I don't think a computer was even shown – all the interactions were apps on phones.

(They did mention, at the end, extensions for blocking recommendations.)

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I think your parent's point is that ultimately these platforms run us down the algorithmic rabbit holes that keep us on the platform in order to show us more ads. So, ad blockers might undermine that incentive.

Facebook and many others don't use third party ad networks anymore due to the rise of ad blockers, so most ad blockers don't even work on them since they work by blocking DNS lookups for those advertising domains.

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