All good. We all have off days.

I wonder if the author was trying to represent the reader who would object to what she's trying to do with the complaints you pointed out. Is she trying to answer those questions by showing that she had similar issues, etc.

Your first post is definitely missing the point of the article and you're cherry-picking things to be annoyed about. You yourself jumped head first into "debate mode".

This second post is now hostile and "adversarial". I think you're in a shitty frame of mind and projecting it onto me. I literally joined a couple of hours ago, contributed once and my first reply is some aggressive gate-keeping and newbie-shaming and calling reddit a trash heap with the obvious implication that I'm part of the problem. You're demonstrating exactly the kind of crap I just signed up here to avoid but now I'm not so sure I wanna stick around. So thanks for the welcome, I guess

It's more like trying to avoid things that are bad for you and exploring how hard that is and how inconvenient it can be.

I think you're missing the point. The article is about how hard it is to avoid these companies, i.e. how ubiquitous they are and how much we rely on them. It's not about some spoiled rich kid complaining that she can't access her instagram. It's ironic that you can't see that and post about it on a site like this that's an escape from things like reddit.