• Leg@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The term “attention theft” is some dystopian shit, and just probable enough to make me vomit in my mouth.

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      5 months ago

      Attention theft is an existing term, though it’s used to describe bad practices by marketers. I suppose it’s bad that the term has had to come into existence, but it is good that it exists as a way to talk about bad practices more easily.

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        5 months ago

        (not) fun fact: In game design there exists analogical term for “making player addicted” called “dark patterns”. Mostly used by live service and mobile games