I've used a privacy inspector program to screen the various websites I visit just for fun. Thirdgen.org has WAAYyyyy more ad trackers and third party cookies than anything else I visit. What's up with that?

 

There are billions of websites out there. I doubt that ThirdGen.org is at the top of the list for the reasons you stated. Although it might be of the few websites you visit, I just checked a few, big and widely known, websites that I typically visit with the program you referenced and found that other sites have WAAYyyyy more than ThirdGen. So I guess that makes it a draw.

Although this site is free to access and use for personal usage, it is not free to operate. Ads help to pay some of the bills that are associated in operating a website so that members, like yourself, can freely access. Additionally, this site is owned and operated by a business that has employees. It's been that way for the past 10+ years.