I welcome the day such intrusions are rendered illegal or impractical, so that the market can price these offerings appropriately. Until then, why not use what exists?
The GDPR was an attempt. Guess what happened? Everyone implemented it in such a way as to appear compliant but not necessarily be compliant, and to cause maximum annoyance to the user.
What the solution is here is to have an educated population and powerful privacy tools, like uBlock Origin. [1]
But of course, the surveillance oligopoly is developing its own browser [2], specifically to maintain control and make it hard to implement such tools [3].
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
[2] https://news.softpedia.com/news/google-chrome-microsoft-edge...
[3] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338
You're right that GDPR hasn't been enforced strongly enough. It is actually quite a good law (imperfect, but pretty good).
I donate money to NOYB (https://noyb.eu/en/our-detailed-concept) to fight for enforcement of the law.
Quality for consumers has only ever been truly won by regulation - all major economies heavily regulate all industries. The market didn't make food safe, regulation was needed (see history e.g. https://www.hygienie.org/a-brief-history-of-uk-food-safety-l...).