I hope the EU or someone else would address this invasive behavior on the part of ad companies. You know a billboard, a TV ad, text ads, it’s all good. I wanna buy things, I want to know about some things people sell —and people can make a living delivering ads. Fine. But this eternal descent into insidious psychological manipulation to get people to buy things they don’t need which adds to planetary stress by a ‘don’t be evil’ company has got to stop.

I’m a fan of early Google. I don’t know when but they jumped the shark with this nonsense.

Is it ok if they drag really bright quants from financial firms?

The instant I saw Project Veritas was attached to this I stopped reading. Their entire track record screams, "You can't trust a single thing we say."

If the host of the documents induces psychological stress, here's a document that explains the triggers and stressors you're enduring.

https://uploadfiles.io/ky9n997v

If this is Veritas, I've been led to believe that epithet is an accurate description of them.

I was thinking about this. I'm lazy and not very talented, so is there any decent code existing and open sourced that could be adapted to spider only sites without advertising?

You'll have to review the rest of the leaked documents to see how algorithmic discrimination methodologies are tied into this. The preceding paragraphs are damning about intent and implication.