For real though. I had the thought earlier today of how I could reduce my internet usage to text only and try and skip all the bullshit. Might be tough but I'm not seeing another way. At least I'd still be able to access things like Wikipedia.
Between AI killing the idea of "believe what you can see" and ads/tracking being forced on every part of the internet, the end is very, very near.
And it should upset everyone, because the internet was not designed for this. We (the people) ultimately paid to develop what is being taken over by corpos for profit.

This. The number of people (real people, not internet people) I know who just keep using Chrome or other Google products without care is shocking.