Unpopular (?) opinion: marketing is killing the internet for absolutely no value to users.<p>At one point, we had communities of people, and discussions, and things were ok. Then came a mountain of commercial, automated, focused psyops against users: spaming, shilling, astoturfing, censoring, profiling, brigading, ab testing, engagement tracking, JS, ad auctions, eye tracking and on and on.<p>Reddit used to be a community and now it's dead site walking.