Yeah the only time I felt proud to only read the article title instead of 16 paragraphs and a table of contents on a new kind of spam email.

Yes I get it. The hook is constantly changing. I'm glad you let me know the new one. That's all I need.

it may smell but it does accurately describe the problem, the proximal problem.

i think ultimately the problem is users are not seeing it as abnormal, they have been trained to accept subscription models for everything, even local storage.