This has been a known issue for years already. It's the 'attention economy' where nothing matters as much as engagement. Quality is not even an important metric

This has been a known issue for years already. It's the 'attention economy' where nothing matters as much as engagement. Quality is not even an important metric. What we've been left with is visiting the same few websites we like, interacting on a couple of non-corrupted social channels where ads can't invade, like group chats in signal, and constantly unsubscribing from email lists because even the local ice-cream store knows that mailing lists are the best conversion channel.