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April 17, 2026 Reading time: 4 minutes
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But power without discipline is just distraction. Spotify knows you listened to that sad indie
April 17, 2026 Reading time: 4 minutes
As one critic put it: We aren’t watching what we want anymore. We’re watching what the algorithm thinks we want. Here’s the scary stat: The average user now decides whether to keep watching a video within 90 seconds . Enjoyed this post
The upside? We get eerily perfect recommendations. The downside? The . We stop discovering weird, uncomfortable, or challenging content. We just get more of what we already like, wrapped in a slightly different color.