Former Google Employee Explains How Smartphones Are Designed To Steal Your Attention

Written By dawn lamonica

“For any company whose business model is advertising, or engagement-based advertising, meaning they care about the amount of time someone spends on the product, they make more money the more time people spend.

These services are in competition with where we would want to spend our time, whether that’s our sleep or with our friends. There’s this war going on to get as much attention as possible."

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