[Timon3]

When looking something up in a certain search engine which shall not be named, I never look at the top-most advertised links. This has multiple reasons, but probably the most important one is: a search engine is interested in showing me content that I wouldn't be shown normally as a result to earn money. So I ignore these and look towards the later links, or (preferred) I block them from showing up.

Do you feel this is juvenile? If not, can you clearly differentiate? Just to be clear, we're talking about blocking people that artificially boost their reach. In my view, these boosted messages will at best bring you "worse" content (in the sense that it isn't visible due to the content of the message, but due to the wallet of the author), at worst you'll get content from malicious actors (state actors etc.) washed to look like grass-roots opinions.