Nope, I used to work there on non-ads, so I know that they are not doing anything nefarious and also that targeted ads have higher conversion rates.

I often have packages stolen or undelivered, so Ads and advertising companies are like #9999 on my list of things that I'm worried about when I think about deliveries.

When calculating "out of touch," it's worth keeping in mind that Hacker News is its own bubble (and tends to skew further in the privacy-paranoid direction than the public average).