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The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling (www.politico.eu)
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BRUSSELS — Doom scrolling is doomed, if the EU gets its way.

The European Commission is for the first time tackling the addictiveness of social media in a fight against TikTok that may set new design standards for the world’s most popular apps.

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[–] 19 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Infinite scrolling stays my least favorite interface trend. What's wrong with the pages? I'm very glad it would be changed.

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    I have chronic pain and want to limit clicking "Next" all the time

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    All of us have to endure so you can be pleased, of course, milord!

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Endure what exactly? The convenience of not having to click next? Laughable.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Uhm hello? Being subjected to dark patterns? Deceptive user interface design? Educate yourselves?

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Infinite scrolling is not a dark pattern and also not deceptive in any way. A dark pattern is something like amazon asking you four times in different wording and different user interface if you would really like to cancel the service.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Of course king you are right you've changed my mind, I'm so lucky that I've found the only remaining expert in human in dark patterns. You should join the European commissions, all of those posers saying tiktok is addictive they're just dumdum, there's no such thing as an addictive app! All of those meta employees calling the app a drug they're just doing so affectionately!

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