I might not care, but only to an extent. If something sufficiently reprehensible was being used by my ad vendor then it would eventually blow back on me.
What did you get when you clicked on the article?
If they click through they click through. Part of the fun of this method of distributing ads is there isn’t even much of a trail. WalMart pays googleadservices, GAS pays Vox. It’s like using a flyer service, your flyers could wind up in a gay bathhouse, but if they become customers then the flyer service did their job and you don’t worry about it.