People voluntarily visit the internet because it gives them things they want. This is an article about unwelcome changes being automatically made.

Those things are different.

If it's being added to a toaster for no good reason, sure. But the internet as a whole, through a browser? That's not comparable, people explicitly seek it out when they want to.

In the 90s? Sure, Pets.com was a solution in search of a problem. Same with any Uber for dog sitters or whatever from the 10s.

Yeah I would, if "Internet" came with zero safeguards or regulations and corporations put the onus on the user to sift through mountains of spam or mitigate credit card leakage risks when buying something online.