I agree with the incentive of making it harder, and I do the same myself. However there’s a balance to be found between making it harder for a third party and taking advantage of the tools.

If the third party gets the same information etiher way, then there is little to no harm in logging in to the service and taking advantage of the features available.

Not sure about all the accounts and strikes and things. Personally, I’ve been using uBlock Origin - but I also use uMatrix, which is something of a deprecated browser extension by the same author. However, I find that uMatrix really provides the granular control I want. Many websites I visit are broken from the outset, and then I switch things on little by little until I find the bare minimum required to make the site function for my needs.

Unfortunately, when it comes to Google, the minimum connection is often basically the same as logging in. However the global rules I have set in uMatrix lets me readily see which services require me to connect to Google servers to log in, while blocking them initially and giving me the option to pass on viewing the website if I don’t feel like turning things on.