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I've always wondered if this has something to do with instilling a feeling of artificial scarcity.



Oftentimes it is so that you have to interact with the website which subsequently allows the webpage to autoplay media with audio or track engagement with a particular piece of content.


Or just offload their servers cause infinite scroll makes the process of loading additional pages mindlessly faster and much less cumbersome.




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