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To be frank, the OP seems to have no understanding of the underlying technology at play here.
I suggest to the OP to use umatrix webbrowser extension and examining what 3rd-party websites are contacted when you visit say... reddit, vs say... a mastodon instance.
You will see that visiting a mastodon instance does not contact any 3rd-party trackers or ads.
If this is not proof enough, then OP, you should realize that the whole point of the fediverse is to shed ourselves of the shitty ad-tech environment that arose during the 2010's, there is not a centralized controller of a federated site like mastodon or peertube, so you can always spin up your own server that is completely free of tracking and just use that.
I hope that makes sense.
What I imagine when I think of a scenario like OP is the companies actively scraping Fedi profiles and posts and then using machine learning(?) to map the data to known users. Trackers wouldn't be necessary.
Of course, that's a lot of work and I doubt it's happening soon (if ever). Still interesting to think about.