Yes, but this is first-order thinking. That's common. The mechanism here is: "Content X directly makes TikTok/Amazon/etc more money [better ads]" -> more profi

Yes, but this is first-order thinking. That's common. The mechanism here is: "Content X directly makes TikTok/Amazon/etc more money [better ads]" -> more profitable -> show it more. Second-order thinking is much rarer, and looks something like this: "Content X makes people more reluctant to buy stuff from other places" -> less profitable for someone else -> ??? -> shut it down. This is much rarer. TikTok can run ads on both sorts of content, so we shouldn't expect this to be totally clamped down on.