Can we ban people from being stupid ? uuh ;)
US could ban 'addictive' autoplay videos and infinite scrolling online
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Re: US could ban 'addictive' autoplay videos and infinite scrolling online
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
How exactly would you accomplish this? It’s not as though you chose the content that plays you simply choose a station on broadcast TV.
Mandatory pauses of at least 1 minute between scheduled programs, with no moving images, to allow viewers to wake up from their "TV zombie" state.
More importantly, between commercials and scheduled programs. But I was just thinking of banning broadcast TV outright, because it seems absurdly antidemocratic to ban the equivalent of broadcast TV online, but not broadcast TV itself
Re: US could ban 'addictive' autoplay videos and infinite scrolling online
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I highly doubt that showing something like "There are X new great posts from blah blah blah, check them out" instead of using infinite scroll will resolve the problem. At the end of the day one could simply load a million posts (probably needs some code/data optimizations but we are talking here about billion dollar companies) and now it is a finite scroll (EDIT: seems that the bill addresses this case).
Sure it will. Infinite scrolling triggers a dopamine response just like a slot machine[1]. Its sole purpose is to keep users hooked. Telling the user "you're done now, unless you want to keep going" removes that addictive reaction in the brain. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/automatic-you/201208...
"Dopamine is a chemical released in the brain, often when we experience reward or pleasure. The "dopamine feedback loop" is sometimes held up as evidence that social media can affect our brains in the same way drugs do. The idea is that we become chemically dependent upon bursts of dopamine triggered by people 'liking' our posts on Facebook, or retweeting us on Twitter.
But while it's true that interacting with social media can give your brain a dopamine shot, that does not mean you're getting high. Your brain releases dopamine on an everyday basis.
"Dopamine research itself shows that things like video games and technologies, they're in the same realm as food and sex and learning and all of these everyday behaviours."
This was a year ago - Neither Professor Przybylski nor Amy Orben rule out the possibility that social media can negatively affect human behaviour, but both emphasise the need for further research.
Re: US could ban 'addictive' autoplay videos and infinite scrolling online
#64I hope that if they ban addictive autoplay, they apply the ruling first to broadcast TV.
How exactly would you accomplish this? It’s not as though you chose the content that plays you simply choose a station on broadcast TV.
Reassign the TV band to license-free data transmission, like Wi-Fi but with potentially higher bandwidth and longer range. Outlaw cable TV.
Or you could transmit a special signal that turns the TV off at the end of every program and before every commercial. Require new TVs to interpret the signal and turn off when received. If you want to watch another program, you have to turn the TV back on.
Re: US could ban 'addictive' autoplay videos and infinite scrolling online
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
It depends on the use case and how it is being implemented. I wouldn’t ban a tech because it was not used appropriately once in the past.
Can you name three examples of using infinite scrolling where it's a better idea, usability-wise, to pagination?
Think of the Google search results page. Currently, you have to scroll the content, then do another action to go to the next page of results, then scroll again, etc. Very tedious to quickly scan through the items. So infinite scroll would be better here (I used a plugin at one time that provided this), however it would also be better if the number of results per page didn't scroll of the screen.
Now the best infinite scroll implementation I've seen is one that has at the top of the window a number of page selectors. When you scroll past a certain point, the next page selector gets highlighted, and the previous content disappears from the DOM content.
Re: US could ban 'addictive' autoplay videos and infinite scrolling online
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I don't want YT to autoplay either, and you used to be able to make it not autoplay in the settings, but that was too useful I guess.
A blanket banning of autoplay will be the only solution then. While at it, they must ban autoplaying of suggested videos. Autoplaying of suggested videos is the video site equivalent of autoscrolling.
Yeah, I toggle that switch off every few weeks when it 'mysteriously' toggles itself back on.
I really hate google's YT, they even throw up (the equivalent of) 'buffering' more than it ever did when they didn't have a huge worldwide CDN behind it.
Re: US could ban 'addictive' autoplay videos and infinite scrolling online
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
It depends on the use case and how it is being implemented. I wouldn’t ban a tech because it was not used appropriately once in the past.
Can you name three examples of using infinite scrolling where it's a better idea, usability-wise, to pagination?
When I do want to see a lot of data in a list format. After scrolling through couldn't find the item, filter search bar let's me to search it again in the already displayed list.
Pagination can do this as well, but in this case, I would make fewer clicks.
However, I'm not saying infinite scroll is the best in this use case, but would be a contender - I 'might' prefer it than pagination.
Re: US could ban 'addictive' autoplay videos and infinite scrolling online
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
It depends on the use case and how it is being implemented. I wouldn’t ban a tech because it was not used appropriately once in the past.
You fail to appreciate how angry I get over fancy UI failures :P I'd say execution should be on the table when someone decides to implement infinite scroll. But that's just me. But theres another comment of mine, I say it's the same rationale of banning cigarette ads instead of cigarettes. Which has worked very well for dropping smoking rates from like 50% of the population to now around 14% and still dropping.
Infinite scroll definitely can be misused UX wise, but definitely not the only UI component that cause me twitches. And just because you think infinite scroll is as bad as smoking cigarettes, which I'm skeptical that it is, I would NEVER support any government regulators (who are not technical) to ban things categorically.