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EU's age verification app: Zero-Knowledge, Plenty of Questions (open.substack.com)

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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Which other measures would be a good idea?

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[–] Businesskasper@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago

Make continuous scrolling in social media illegal.
Make a setting mandatory which (when active) only shows posts from the people you follow. That should stop the attention seeking crap that appears in everyone's feed. The user didn't ask for random information, they want info on the people they follow.

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[–] calavera@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The most effective measure is to forbid "algorithms" to show content

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[–] dieTasse@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago

Forbid (personally) targetted advertising and half job is done. Suddenly user data lose a lots if value and most dark patterns are centered around the gold that is the data. That said algo should be forbidden too, I agree with you. Or at last opt-in with warning like the ones on cigarettes (algorithms cause harm to your brain).

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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

So, something more akin to how forum boards did it?

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[–] calavera@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

Just like here. There no hidden algorithms to hook people up. It's just content you follow or what's new or upvoted. It doesn't analyze what I do to try to push stuff for me

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