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What is the antidote?
by bix6 2y ago
What is the antidote?
- layer8 2y agoRegulation about ads and tracking.
- bix6 2y agoThat wouldn’t be enough to stop smartphone addiction though
- layer8 2y agoCorrect. Only the current addiction economy.
- giantg2 2y agoYou think your data/activity isn't being monitized?
- layer8 2y agoI did mention tracking?
- giantg2 2y agoWhich isn't the same as single site collection or even selling "anonomizied" aggregate data or training data.
- layer8 2y agoI certainly meant the regulation to cover those. To be able to sell data about user behavior, you have to track it, regardless of whether across several sites or just a single site.
- giantg2 2y agoWell, that's not typically what's meant or else security access log would be completely illegal.
- jgilias 2y agoI’m with you. But then, I’m currently doom scrolling on this text-only site that doesn’t even have ads on it.
- layer8 2y agoSame, but I was referring to the addition economy in the title. That’s not what is going on HN here I think. What would help a bit is removing visible upvote counts and the karma counter, because those can be addictive.
- TZubiri 2y agoWe don't know, but I think step 1 is recognizing the issue, and we are not all there yet. Jumping to the solution feels underestimating the issue, and demanding a quick fix. Par for the course for the malady.
- api 2y ago[dead]
- giantg2 2y agoThe first question should be if we want an antidote? We've tried banning many things to little effect. In many ways, the economy needs the spending to stay afloat.
- fullshark 2y agoGenuine human connection and traditionally: religion.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoWhat if "genuine human connection" is actually a True Scottsman?
- deadbabe 2y agoArranged marriages.
- temporallobe 2y agoYou joke, but this is not the worst idea.
- deadbabe 2y agoI never joke.
- johnea 2y agoI've known one couple, in Southern California, who entered a family arranged marriage. They were still happily married last time I saw them... Whereas many many couples that married for "love" (another one of those addiction economy products in many cases), went on to viscous divorces. Just one anecdote...
- watwut 2y agoYou mean legal rape, basically?
- dns_snek 2y agoRelease people from the shackles of capitalism and start over. Easier said that done, but it's completely understandable why most people are looking for different ways of escaping reality in this century. If it wasn't phones, it would be drugs, alcohol, and gambling.
- acchow 2y agoLove and purpose
- disambiguation 2y agoAlcohol is poison, but over thousands of years humanity has learned to coexist with it. Sure there are exceptions but in general we have an idea of what a healthy relationship with booze looks like. Tech and social media are so new, we haven't figured out what a healthy dynamic looks like yet. Hard to talk about an antidote until you know what healthy looks like.