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The desperate search for monetization. Twitter is free, so it will get worse until you stop using it or they somehow manage to get you to click on an ad. Same with Reddit.

Sometimes this is the desperate attempt to neutralize a competitor by cloning it. That's why Twitter copied "spaces" from Clubhouse, and Youtube and Instagram have copies of Tiktok in them (mostly hosting content with tiktok watermarks on, hilariously)

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Getting you to click on ads does not takes megabytes of JavaScript diarrhea.

Yeah but a completely-dynamically-rendered web app slathered in frameworks for A/B testing, feature flags, analytics & tracking, cookie permissions, media middleware, localization, theming and browser compatibility sure does.

>completely-dynamically-rendered web app slathered in frameworks for A/B testing, feature flags, analytics & tracking, cookie permissions, media middleware, localization, theming and browser compatibility

Getting you to click on ads does not take that. The only point in the list that makes money is spying I mean "analytics and tracking" but that doesn't take dozens of megabytes of js diarrhea and a thousand frameworks calculating DOM diffs and whatnot

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