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The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling
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I'm not really a rabid fan of infinite scrolling myself, but setting aside the question of whether the state should regulate this sort of thing (I'd say no, but I'm in the US and Europeans can do whatever they want as long as it's not affecting me), in all seriousness, it seems like it should be client-side. Like, we have
prefers-color-schemein CSS at the browser/OS level to ask all websites to use dark mode or light mode. If you want to disable infinite scrolling on websites, presumably you want to do so globally and can send that bit (and if you want it on a per-site basis, the browser could have support for a toggle).And if you want screen time break reminders, there's existing browser-level and OS-level functionality for that. Debian has a number of packages to do just that. I mean, I'd think that the EU can just say "OS vendors in an EU locale should have this feature on by default", rather than going site-by-site.
We are well past the point where the client decides how hypertext looks. You are talking about feed readers.
I mean that the setting should be client-side. With
prefers-color-scheme, it's a hint to the website's CSS design as to what theme to use.