Why won't they install my curl | bash cron job that runs as root on all their servers? I pinky-promise it's mostly harmless.
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P.S.: As a hardcore Reddit commenter for over a decade who remembers moving from Digg, I'm mostly-serious. When there's an actual human discussion, I do not want to squint at a tiny viewable area, evading ads-that-look-like-comments, and manually iterating through dozens of "load more that are hidden" link-buttons... some of which will cause a page transition and completely reset all progress.
This is especially true when I'm trying to find some crucial keyword (perhaps one a search-engine told me exists) but I can't just ctrl-f the through comments anymore.
No, at that point... Well, at that point I will turn to something that would otherwise be anathema, a malevolent "solution" so horrible that it shows just how bad the problem is... I will seek a summary from [ominous thunderclap] an LLM!
> You'll never get me to use the app so stop trying.
I mean for the sake of the completeness of their how-to-get-people-to-use-app research, not just the benefit of the user who doesn't want the app.
You will not convert 100% of people to the app, unless you shut down the website, or make it so unusable on mobile that it might as well be shut down.
That sounds like a net positive, to be honest.