I’m with you.

But then, I’m currently doom scrolling on this text-only site that doesn’t even have ads on it.

Same, but I was referring to the addition economy in the title. That’s not what is going on HN here I think. What would help a bit is removing visible upvote counts and the karma counter, because those can be addictive.

That wouldn’t be enough to stop smartphone addiction though

Correct. Only the current addiction economy.

You think your data/activity isn't being monitized?

I did mention tracking?

Which isn't the same as single site collection or even selling "anonomizied" aggregate data or training data.

I certainly meant the regulation to cover those. To be able to sell data about user behavior, you have to track it, regardless of whether across several sites or just a single site.

Well, that's not typically what's meant or else security access log would be completely illegal.