alt Hacker NewsInstead of trying to whack a mole on all addictive mechanisms, just ban the business model driving all of them: targeted advertising.
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zbentley • yesterday at 10:45 PM
I’m not sure that suffices. If a site has a very “good” (at keeping people glued to the screen) content ranking algorithm, they can still make money, albeit less, serving non-targeted ads. Longer engagement time by viewers = more ad impressions, targeted or not.
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JoshTriplett • today at 12:11 AM
s/targeted //
That would cause most, if not all, modern tech companies to go out of business (or massively downsize). I support it.