I've got the paid version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary so I'm not bothered by ads with it, but I find that the apps I've got with ads are just as annoying when the ads are totally random as when they are targeted. The only difference is that I don't care to be tracked. But let us be honest, on the internet you will be tracked like it or not. I look at items on eBay and Amazon, just to name a couple of sites, then pull up CNN.com, Facebook, or any number of other sites and I see ads based on the items I was looking at. It is going to happen whether in an app or surfing the internet in a browser via your desktop computer. It might be annoying, but it certainly is no reason to turn my nose up at a perfectly good app like the Merriam-Webster dictionary. I'm old school and very well educated, so I personally prefer dictionaries produced by scholarly people rather than freeware dictionaries with a questionable heritage.