Seeing as there's no official answer by the Network, I thought I'd pipe up and write a general answer on how users can protect themselves from this type of tracking and basically what I regard as privacy invasion.

I've done some study/research on this and there's nothing private about the internet. Google and other sites also do this. Many companies have been forced to clean up their ways to an "extent". Most end users are ignorant of what is being done with their data and the risk associated with what these sites view as non-PII (personal identifiable information) and how, in fact, the data can be matched (too long to get into) to reveal specific user details (including PII) without the user being aware.

I manually select which cookies I'll accept on each site I visit. I have third-party cookies blocked and my browser set to remove cookies (with my selected exceptions) when I quit. I go through my cookies whenever I quit my browser and have been on new sites, or sites where I know the cookies are not removed when I quit, and I manually remove them. I can do this many times a day. I also closed all my social media accounts. Beyond this site having my real name, I'm entitled to my privacy and take it seriously. I prefer to have console errors or a page not to render properly than be tracked and harvested for money.

I also use an ad blocker and have for a long time. Some sites won't allow you to view pages with this active. If I'm desperate to see something I'll allow ads on that page. Websites are entitled to raise revenue, but I don't have to visit there.

Fun fact: Google was trying to patent the collection of user data few years back. Seriously! I use Google products, but with full awareness of what they do and regularly clear my usage histories. And as for Twitter et al, they're not better. All these sites are data mined for non-PII and put together and this data is utilised and sold. Sometimes information ends up on the Dark Web for sale. It's one of those things. Live your life so there's nothing you do that you will not be concerned about becoming public. Or do not use the internet.

Fun Fact Two: I live in Australia and not only is our internet appalling, but our government shows a flagrant disrespect for basic human rights, including the right to privacy.