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Re:Protecting My Attention at the Dopamine Carnival by p0sixlang on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @12:03AM (#44567722)
How are you delineating websites and apps, and can you elaborate what exactly your hypothesis is here?
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Re:Protecting My Attention at the Dopamine Carnival by medstrom on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @02:26AM (#44568400)
I presume they mean it's a website when you type it into an URL bar.

And that you don't ever add website bookmarks to the homescreen, because that makes them similar to apps.

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Re:Protecting My Attention at the Dopamine Carnival by joules77 on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @03:40AM (#44568873)
I mean anything you have to "install" from an app store tied to a phone OS. Sometimes if there is no other option I install the app/complete the task and uninstall.

The app guys have normalized the idea that every "bright" idea they get about how to exploit my data or waste my attention, they have a right to push it out to my phone, if I have installed their app.

So the stupid apps keep updating with new shit everyday whether I need it or not.

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