> It's really annoying that I can't consume information from social media sites without also opting into all of their slot-machine like mechanisms The content

> It's really annoying that I can't consume information from social media sites without also opting into all of their slot-machine like mechanisms The content was only ever the cheese to draw us into the advertising trap. They're not in the business of giving us free content, they're in the business of selling our attention as we gorge ourselves on "free" content.