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Then just don’t use those apps? I don’t, and nobody above 30 in my circle does. No need stay in caves, just adapt some culture.

I don't do, but can't stop my spouse sitting beside me from doing that ... Hence the problem .. :-)

I hear you! Literally.

And its the first 4 or 8 bars of a song (usually a modern cover or remix of older song) on a loop.

It is waterboarding for the ears.