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The Business of Digital Manipulation: How your Brain is Hacked to Create Addictive Digital Products

May 8, 2025 Allison

The Hidden Systems Behind the Apps We Can’t Stop Using Many people don’t realize just how calculated our digital habits have become. The apps we open dozens of times a day aren’t just popular by accident, they’re designed to be addictive. And the companies behind them aren’t just hoping we’ll stick around; they’re engineering entire […]

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