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Rubén Baler, neuroscientist: ‘We are guinea pigs. Our attention has become a profitable commodity’ (english.elpais.com)
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[–] Legend@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Constantly telling my doctor this, whenever she provides me with medical advice on my splitting headaches and nose bleeds.

You know thats not what I meant .

Okay, but hypothetically speaking, what if internet applications were designed to be addictive?

Hell, what if highly functional tools were deliberately degraded as a means of increasing monetized interactions?

The evilinator thing was a phineas and ferb reference .