Absolutely "oh, you want me to stop jamming up your inbox...just do this extra stuff and we'll ask you for some more data and will totally not bother you anymore and we totally promise not to sell your email address that we now are sure is actively maintained and observed to other folks"
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For sure. But I mean, the ritual of humiliation via friction is intended to wear you/us down. An example I just saw was a screenshot of twitterx suspending someone's account but they can remove the offending post. That friction isn't necessary to achieve their goals. It only degrades the person. I wonder how much of life is these ritualistic incremental suicides...