How your phone hooks you: dopamine, infinite scroll and the slot machine in your pocket
Autoplay: why the next video starts before you decide
When a video ends, the next one starts by itself in a few seconds, unless you stop it. That small countdown changes who has to make the choice. The same trick decides how many people in a country end up on the organ donor list.
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Miva's app now has short comedy videos too. When one ends, a little countdown starts at 5. Then the next video plays by itself. This is called autoplay.
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An hour later, you have watched nine videos. You did not pick a single one of them.
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