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I consider these suggestions harmful and manipulative. They are probably there to maximize engagement, but for me they interrupt my flow, waste my attention and shift the assistant into acting like salesman or tutor.

At the call center we used to call this "Ownership of the interaction". Its intent, along with most "innovations" of the past decade or so, is to strip you of your agency.

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