Brussels is going head-to-head with social media platforms to change addictive design.

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.

  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    You can’t really ban dark patterns even though we all agree they suck.

    I think the point I was getting at was that a lot of things dark patterns do are individually things that have the potential for good or bad. Infinite scroll is one example. There’s also modals, sale banners, and so on.

    What makes a dark pattern dark isn’t the specific, individual tools at use. It’s the sum of those, plus the intent.