Facebook's solution to losing money? Make Instagram more addictiveInstagram is taking away your ability to limit your time on the app.
After Facebook reported the first decline of daily active users in its history, its stock experienced the largest daily percentage drop of any company in history. The company lost over 30% of its market capitalization in days.
The company, which has been mired in controversy about the effects that its products have on our mental, emotional, and societal health, had an opportunity to address this setback and recognize that manipulating its users through advertising and algorithms is not the markings of a successful business in the long term.
Instead of looking internally, the company blamed Apple's privacy protections and its revenue solution is to try and make Instagram even more addictive.
In a report from TechCrunch, Meta is changing the "Daily Time Limit" feature on Instagram. The feature allows users to set a daily time limit to ensure that they don't spend more time than they want to on the app. It's an imp...
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Facebook's solution to losing money? Make Instagram more addictive
