I understand the angst, and that's why I don't engage with social platforms. The exception is when friends text me to go look at their posts, during which time I make sure to click every ad I see to increase cost to the organizations responsible for wasting my time.

My phone's camera stores photos on my phone and when its plugged in a python script syncs photos to my laptop and deletes non-starred phone photos older than 30 days.

Future generations will have a set of media ethics similar to the geneva convention to prevent wasting everyone's time; see https://www.nohello.com/ et al.