I'm all for regulating dark patterns, but I don't think it's easy to say what's addictive design or not. We have no objective basis to measure this with.

You could consider unlimited scroll a dark pattern and block that, just like you'd want to block making it near impossible to cancel a service. That's testable and clear.

But "addictiveness" is just too wide a net and unenforceable (or rather, selectively enforceable).

And then the idea that the EU claims their own age verification app is the most private and most secure app in the world, yet it's already been hacked is laughable[1].

I'm very exhausted at out-of-touch and technologically illiterate politicians declaring mission accomplished on these things.

I understand that the free venture capital backed market has failed humanity in many respects. If we want solutions to the _human_ problems technology causes then yes, we need some regulations. But once again, this is just sloppy, lazy, bad law. Not based on evidence, not based on any standards, and not clear at all.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-che...