Indeed. I do not have a google account. I have never agreed to any TOS. My wife has gmail through work. My contact info is there. They take that, correlate it with my Unique Machine Identifier and phone IMEI and use that with google ad sense on 80% of websites to track me. I have never agreed or consented to any of this. How is this even legal?
Semi-permanent tracking cookies should be illegal unless you have agreed to it. They should not follow you after you have left the site where you acquired them, but they do. And because they deny this fraud they are being allowed to continue. It will take a huge stink to bring attention to it and put them on the spot.
It is time to explain this issue with the websites who support and use these services. Just clicking a link to a webpage is not consent to be abused, because they have no disclaimer giving you heads up that this is their auto-load cookie policy before you go there or when you land there.
The only thing available is self defense against it with Ad blockers and script blockers, but they are even starting to demand you turn these off to read their site. Fine... Good bye. Enough people start using these and they will change their tune or suffer a huge reduction in traffic and in turn revenue.