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bryanlarsentoday at 5:49 PM1 replyview on HN

Instagram/Android was 2012. (Instagram iOS was late 2010). But not just Instagram; 2012 was about the time that social media really started adopting the dark patterns.


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soupfordummiestoday at 6:07 PM

2012 is pretty much the year smartphone addiction began approaching critical mass