i think what i'm getting at is fundamentally different...watching tv and scrolling through social media are distinct experiences.
When you scroll, the content is directly in front of you and you're actively controlling the flow (you decide whether to keep scrolling or stop).
With tv, the input is removed from you (you'd have to reach for the remote to change the channel) also channel flipping during ads isn't really a thing anymore.
So while the "dog in the ad" principle might work for tv where people are more passive and less likely to change the channel...i'm not sure it directly translates to phone scrolling, where you have more immediate control and are actively making micro-decisions about whether to keep scrolling or engage.
damn, everyone is having such well thought out conversations, and I just scrolled to see the Pokémon that were selected.
I think I'm one of those people who worries that if i understand the math of it all, it'll lose some of the magic that made me keep my raticate for no other reason than because it was the first pokemon that accepted me without me dealing any damage to it.
ngl, i think the fact that this is even possible and can get people is really dope.
I wish there were public studies like, 'We ran an experiment where young, attractive women wearing Polish clothing caused people who would naturally express these ideologies to stop scrolling more often than young, attractive women not wearing Polish clothing, for x demographic"
This is one of those issues that only comes to mind when you’ve experienced a major outage. From what I’ve seen, indie developers and small SaaS teams rarely have the engineering resources to manage backup tools, so I doubt they’d be willing to pay for them. Typically, if backups are a priority, it’s because you’re dealing with SOC2 compliance, PII requirements, and strict SLAs.