[LINK] "What’s Doomscrolling really costing you?"

[Harry McNally]

Hi Sylvano

On 9/10/24 16:22, Sylvano wrote:
> That the burger gambling ads work or not is missing the point on a couple of fronts.
>
> Firstly, the insertion of an interruptive message during the doomscroll behaviour is a direct message intervention in the addictive activity, not a warning to not act on the advertised call to action.
>
> Secondarily, it is an easy to implement requirement upon the social giants.

I'd like to suggest something similar that is already in plain sight.

If you look at

https://abc.net.au/news/justin

and scroll down, it reaches a limit of stories and a button says: Load more 
stories

I'm guessing the ABC does this to set a data limit for each page request but 
it is an intervention without making it obvious.

Then just legislate social media UX design to require this.

Caveat here that this with a web browser. I have no idea how the ABC app does it.

All the best
Harry

ps Who is Justin and why does he have his own news page ?