You can turn all of that off. I think the issue is for personal consumers is non tinkers are getting home systems and tablets and phones and largely dont care so the get the ads and such. While us tinkers are frustrated by the bloat.
And if you're building a 9800x3d and looking at a 5070ti OR a 5080 video card I would say stick with the higher end CPU and spend the money, but wait on ram. Why... because you want to draw out the performance of the video card.
We're talking a 400 dollar price difference on a DDR5 kit of...
If it walks like a gorilla... and talks like a gorilla...
It's not about Intel or AMD... It's just saying that with the amount you are over paying on ram right now you could go up a tier in video card and keep the same ram once prices drop back down.
I wouldn't have ANYONE build a PC...
I will fully admit i bought into the hype. I've even pre ordered games I've liked the idea of sense. But I am more cautious since. And I won't Kickstart anything without a solid track record.