What you describe is what an ideal internet would be. Thanks. I'm kind of a normie myself; I know what's going on when I visit a site. I also get mad whenever I receive a notification that a certain number of trackers were blocked, that this many ads were blocked, and that trackers from apps I have installed on my smartphone were also blocked. The amount of trackers blocked by my NextDNS this month is just enough to ruin your day.

What I do now is try to be as least present on the internet as possible, using a VPN and Tor. I recently deleted all my social media accounts and stock apps and now use only FOSS. It's so much better now, but it's not even solution 15% of what's really going on. I never thought this would ever stop; all the laws and claims have fallen short. I've accepted that once you enter the web, you ultimately surrender to all the bad things going on. You have some control, but not fully. I have no idea how much of my data is out there, as I've recently gotten into all this. I was dumb enough to trust Google, Meta, and Microsoft and others just like them. I've left behind the attitude of "What do I have to hide?" Instead, I now think, "I don't have anything to show you either."