| Wouldn't a smart paranoid guy like you have an old sacrificial laptop | lying around to run Google (and other scary sites) stuff so you can | stop seeing white web pages?
I don't need to. I use duckduckgo. Actually Google basic search works, too, for the most part. I avoid it because they use redirects to track all activity, but I'm not paranoidly avoiding them. I just don't especially like being spied on.
I find it's usually the lazy people who view it as paranoid to care about online privacy and security. Lazy people prefer not to know because if they did know what was going on then they might feel they have to make some kind of effort.
I don't see it as black and white. It's not paranoids and normal people. Nor is it smart privacy watchdogs and idiots. There's a big middle ground where one can greatly increase both security and privacy online with a bit of effort and knowledge. That seems like plain common sense to me. And it saves me from needing anti-virus, malwarebytes, or any of those other resource-hogging security programs that most people use.