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Funes-yesterday at 11:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

>"well what specific laws would I write to combat addictive design?"

Hear me out: banning advertising on the Internet. It's the only way. It's the primordial domino tile. You knock that one over, every other tile follows suit. It's the mother of chain reactions. There would be no social media, no Internet as we know it. Imagine having TikTok, YouTube or X trying to survive on subscriptions alone in their current iterations. Impossible. They'd need to change their top priority from "maximizing engagement by fostering addictive behavior" to "offering a product with enough quality for someone to pay a fee in order to be able to use it".


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thesmtsolver2yesterday at 11:51 PM

How will you ban that without infringing on free speech. That is a thing in the US and a lot of countries outside the EU.

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iamacyborgyesterday at 11:46 PM

They already effectively banned the mechanism behind most online advertising with the GDPR, it’s just been really, really poorly enforced.

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