> It's not like you can pay $3 to Google to get them to stop surveilling you.

Well sort of. You can pay them for YouTube Premium and watch videos without ads. I might pay for an ad-free Google Search but I have developed an almost reflexive habit of ignoring the ads on Google Search anyway. It's much easier to just look past them in the search results, as opposed to when watching a video where you have no choice.

And I'm sure they are surveilling me regardless.