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After successfully recuperating tiktok, politicians are going to once again exploit pseudo-science to outlaw the "infinite scroll." Get ready for the comeback of the pager. Thanks libs!

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Brussels has told the company to change several key features, including disabling infinite scrolling, setting strict screen time breaks and changing its recommender systems.

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-scheme in 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.

[–] dukemirage@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

We are well past the point where the client decides how hypertext looks. You are talking about feed readers.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago

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.