> Isn't this what sensible parents should be doing?
yes _parents_, but we are speaking about state actions (which could require companies to give parents tools to help them handle this this (:1))
and that affects parents, and teachers, and what is tough, and how society in general treats such things, and which things get which age rating etc. We need to convince society that this dopamine cycles are similar bad as drugs, only forcing it down their throat is not going to end well
and I was also focusing a lot in the comment on from which angle states approach that actions
> targeted online advertising
while that is a problem, it isn't the core problem here
the core problem is dark patterns intentionally designed to make apps/sites maximally addictive
even if we didn't had any ads at all many apps(and co) would likely still do that, so that they can e.g. sell more micro transaction (like think 0.2ct per short watched, small enough to seem nothing but if you doom scroll for two+ hours every day adds up (~120$/€ a year). Heck even without micro transactions it still does make "statistics look good" some it probably still would be applied quite often.
yes _parents_, but we are speaking about state actions (which could require companies to give parents tools to help them handle this this (:1))
and that affects parents, and teachers, and what is tough, and how society in general treats such things, and which things get which age rating etc. We need to convince society that this dopamine cycles are similar bad as drugs, only forcing it down their throat is not going to end well
and I was also focusing a lot in the comment on from which angle states approach that actions
> targeted online advertising
while that is a problem, it isn't the core problem here
the core problem is dark patterns intentionally designed to make apps/sites maximally addictive
even if we didn't had any ads at all many apps(and co) would likely still do that, so that they can e.g. sell more micro transaction (like think 0.2ct per short watched, small enough to seem nothing but if you doom scroll for two+ hours every day adds up (~120$/€ a year). Heck even without micro transactions it still does make "statistics look good" some it probably still would be applied quite often.