I do believe that most online surfers aren't technically savvy enough to be concerned about the "spying eye" icon. For something like this, i think it would be difficult to get 3rd parties to remove cookie calls from their applications. Gathering market demographics is just too important for them to drop without a major user revolt.
$1, $10, $100, or $1000 per day all require the same strategies you've listed above. Just more of the same over and over again. It really is just a numbers game, that begins with getting some traffic. Thanks for the reminders.