Not really that surprising: all logic that used to be in the code is now in the model; the only code that is left is some glue to connect the outside world to the number crunching, just like Llama2 runs your LLMs with only 700 lines of C.
They're eating the code. They're eating the algorithms.
What works pretty well for me is the "i don't care about cookies" extension for firefox; my default privacy policy is to throw away cookies when the browser restarts, which I do a few times per day anway.
No need to choose, you can have both - there is this very nice place where software meets hardware; call it embedded, call it robotics, call it industrial automation; this is the place where software actually gets to interface to physics: read sensors, drive solenoids and motors, make things move and act and do things in the real world.
I got into this business 25 years ago and never left. Still loving every single day.