Maybe you're not the type of person who's struggled with addiction, but it can do awful things to you. Yes, including being addicted to scrolling social media. It screws with your head to the point where you don't know how to live in the moment anymore.

IMO it's a feature that's not valuable enough to justify the fact that it contributes to poor quality of life for people who can't put it down.

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cyberrock 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What will stop the addicts from just installing a modified build? Will distributors of modified builds be subject to jail sentences like drug dealers? What about authors of auto-paginate scripts like Reddit Enhancement Suite, or the various HN client apps?

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randomNumber7 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The first step to get on track in life is to stop blaming the outside for all problems. Yes some people had really bad luck but in the end you can only change yourself.

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MrScruff 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I suspect there's not a huge amount of overlap between those who would like this banned and those who are targeted by it.

	▲	randomNumber7 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		There is likely no overlap between software engineers and the people with below average IQ that the EU tries to protect from themself.

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memish 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Would you ban alcohol and video games and Netflix?

	▲	ozgrakkurt 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Alcohol would have been definitely banned if it was feasible