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I'm guess I'm less concerned with being spied on than being inconvenienced.
In this case, I don't know when URLs suddenly became clickable in my terminal windows, but what used to be a simple copy/paste now requires more surgical precision lest I click the damned thing, which launches it in Chrome. BZZT! That's not what I want! And it seems like something that ought to be easy to disable, but I spent hours researching it to no avail.
I find having to spend time making effort due to someone else's having felt the need to "help" me a particularly vile form of inconvenience. It's one thing if a water main breaks. But it's another when it's due to "help" that I didn't ask for.
And that's how I see what "the web" has become: a huge tumor of inconvenience. My <deity>, how I want to retch watching modern pages load, including how attempting to click on a link that keeps jumping around feels not unlike trying to catch a fly with my hand.
And don't get me going on "content" provided by javascripturbation such that I can't simply curl and parse. That's close to the pinnacle of inconvenience zone, meaning my choices are use some beast of a browser, or go without. I far more often go without anymore.
Love the phrase "terminal diversity", by the way. :-)