Comment on The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Brussels has told the company to change several key features, including disabling infinite scrolling, setting strict screen time breaks and changing its recommender systems.
I’m not really a rabid fan of infinite scrolling myself, but setting aside the question of whether the state should regulate this sort of thing, in all seriousness, it seems like it should be client-side. Like, we have prefers-color-scheme in CSS at the browser/OS level to ask all websites to use dark mode or light mode. If you want to disable infinite scrolling on websites, presumably you want to do so globally and can send that bit (and if you want it on a per-site basis, the browser could have support for a toggle).
And if you want screen time breaks, there’s existing browser-level and OS-level functionality for that.
dukemirage@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We are well past the point where the client decides how hypertext looks. You are talking about feed readers.
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I mean that the setting should be client-side. With
prefers-color-scheme, it’s a hint to the website’s CSS design as to what theme to use.