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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They made their bed, and now they have to lie in it.

Only the bed they made is fairly cushy.

While the quality of content may have decreased, that's not how they make money. Like many modern tech companies, they make money from collecting data and serving ads, which they're presumably doing in droves since forcing their users into their first-party app.