I for one take the pragmatic approach of not working for companies with practices I object to. Thus I’m never faced with that dilemma.
In my experience, I try to avoid companies with objectionable practices, but in a lot of cases, all the vendors are varying degrees of unscrupulous. Or the vendors that are ethical have a significantly worse customer experience because they're playing fair against competitors who are playing unfair. So, I'm left to either choose the least bad vendor or face massive inconvenience from not using a competitive vendor.
I’m not objecting to advertising, but the privacy violations.
> and I wouldn't say those industries are inherently worse than others.
I wouldn’t (and didn’t) say that either.