Though personally I prefer X/tter.

The deterrence argument is used to throw the book at people committing minor crimes like shoplifting. Let's apply it to quadruple homicide, eh?

Mary Long Fau should have died in prison.

That driver was never found. It's not clear what efforts, if any, were made to find them. After all the Cruise is covered in cameras.

Typical Apple behavior, I guess, but grating to see in a OSS tool.

Regardless, the real reason people use this is because it's incredibly convenient compared with using QMK and ZMK directly.

Ad slots will be filled whether or not you click. If you never click, you'll tend to match with either very low quality ads or ads that pay per impression (display ads).

Email registration is highly valuable for a business, so analytics won't be used to decide whether to show the modal but rather test different versions of it.

Cookies are too valuable to not push on users, because without them only the previously mentioned low quality ads can be shown. High quality and display ads match on interest or demographic labels.

The business decision to keep vertical videos is highly likely to be affected by analytics, and of course the choice of which videos to show is based on recommendation models trained on interaction logs.

The priority isn't making your experience better, though that is often an incidental result -- it's driving the business.

I'm curious whether the "knowledge" you gained was real or hallucinatory. I've been using LLMs this way myself, but I worry I'm contaminating my memory with false information.