I have a similar story, used to drink a litre of coke every couple of days when I was 15. At some point I decided I didn't want that life any more and quit. It's been several years now and I still can't stand the taste of coke. It just tastes so artificial with an awful after taste; and I've never really had a sweet tooth anyway.
Do you use split tabs at all? I've found hiding the side pane and having multiple split tabs open in one window is a lot great when I'm trying to focus on work. Also not something totally new, but I use their Boosts feature a lot more than I expected, it's great to quickly "zap" elements from websites that I frequent.
Getting used to Arc's keyboard shortcuts and command palette has made it pretty indispensable in my work flow.
Are there any decent alternatives for the Chrome Web store? Are there unified extension hubs for chromium/firefox with version history similar to how android has apk websites
Companies have already begun using RCS as an opportunity to flood my phone with ads that take up way too much space in the notification shade. Also not from the US, so I can just use a 3rd party app
Why do you believe spammers - who make money off the platform, would be unwilling to spend a nominal sum to stay relevant on the platform.
If that is their business model, it would be pretty stupid to not use the tools provided by the platform to stay relevant, more so when the cost is as cheap as $8 (presumably they're making more than $8 a month, otherwise it wouldn't be lucrative enough to bother).
Whereas an average user that simply wants to consume content would probably just find an alternate for free because they're not gaining any monetary value...
Just regular ol' water is eternal