Yes because the sellers of that junk pay them to put it there. And most people give up and buy some of that. If it didn't work they wouldn't do it. Cory Doctor

Yes because the sellers of that junk pay them to put it there. And most people give up and buy some of that. If it didn't work they wouldn't do it. Cory Doctorow covered this specific phenomenon in his great article that coined the term enshittification.