Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial

Re:Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at lan... by jayd16 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @01:17PM (#46964301)

> 200ms isn't enough time for significant information to be transmitted to a person and for them to process it.

I think the point of the flyer is that, surprisingly, it is.

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Re:Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at lan... by pahkah on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @01:29PM (#46964517)

I think there are two different definitions of "significant information" at play here. I interpreted the GP comment to mean "information about the thing being advertised".

The point of the flyer is that you need to get the person to process one bit of information in the first 200ms: scroll or stay. GP's point is that that has little, if anything, to do with the ostensible purpose of advertising, informing people about a product.

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Re:Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at lan... by jayd16 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @02:08PM (#46965168)

If you're selling a new GPU, showing the GPU in the first frame seems like a good bet and perfectly ethical, no? Same for a game, movie, food, car.

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