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by andrewstuart 731 days ago
At a glance this sounds like fast food.
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Are you talking about how they are handling the thing, or the thing itself? If the thing itself, I'd say it is closer to niccotine/bigTobacco more than fast food. These people are intentionally tweaking the algo to make it more addictive just like bigTobacco did.