Not true if they insert themselves as a middle man in order to help you against third party tracking. Google here is a questionable example of that, uBO (no pro

Not true if they insert themselves as a middle man in order to help you against third party tracking. Google here is a questionable example of that, uBO (no profit motive that I'm aware of, open source) a probably objectively positive one. But you do have to trust and give some power to middle man to do their thing for you. Nobody needs your consent to not track you themselves, that's true.