I hate it too and don't deny it's happening but I hate that phrase. It's so crass and juvenile and seeing it repeated ad nauseam has shed any critical meaning it had.

This is a siege. You're being terrorized.

No such problems, I don't use pages which need an account to see the content, or I skip the account Popup, YT without ads and trackers, with extensions or front-ends, fast page loading because blocking all this crap. But yes, free internet is becoming more and more distant since large corporations dominate it with their conditions, if they continue like this, soon you will only be browsing the internet with your ID and credit card and the webcam on.