IMO the obvious course is:

1. Talk with your boss that it’s affecting your productivity.
2. Encourage your colleagues to talk to their boss.

Leading to your bosses ideally addressing this with his boss and if that doesn’t help then your bosses should bring in HR.

I could not imagine the regrowth itch from that being part of the blessed experience?

I find frequently switching works well. It’s a bit of effort, but I have a small list of countries that work best with certain websites.

You hit the nail on the head:

Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely anti “AI baked into my operating system and cell phone so that it can monitor me and sell me crap”. If that’s what being Anti AI is…to that I say Amen.

Most cases in consumer ai, it’s data harvesting gone haywire and it’s not being implemented to benefit society.

From what I see, very few people are stupid enough to blanket hate it, but it is overhyped and being used maliciously.