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I don’t accept the results as revealed preference.

1. Users are not given a choice (well, accept to leave, and I know many people who have).

2. This is measured on time spent, not user satisfaction.

In practice, we demonstrated that algorithms designed to be addictive are addictive (success?), not that there’s an actual preference.



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