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would also be unnecessary if these apps respected the user rather than trying to addict them
by zem 1y ago
would also be unnecessary if these apps respected the user rather than trying to addict them
- coffeecoders 1y agoHard to exercise willpower when the whole system is tuned up against it.
- switchbak 1y agoI've tried hard to keep that garbage out of my sight for years. But dammit YouTube is my one vice. And then they throw those damn shorts on it, I can feel my attention span decreasing. Seems every product just descends into this anti-human shitscape.
- cantor_S_drug 1y agoMore time spent implies more ads shown implies proportional conversion. Also now that we have two big companies vying for attention, the competition is fierce to show "relevant ads" first because both receive intent almost simultaneously. I got a youtube short of an office chair company in the feed. I wasn't looking for it explicitly. It was organic feed. Almost immediately I got an ad for that same chair in gmail. Because all of our phones are always listening for intents and keywords. This is recursive ad slop.