key graf:<p>Why, despite multiple reports[1] from Silicon Valley whistleblowers revealing that technology companies are using manipulative designs to prolong our time online, do we feel personally responsible? Why do we still blame ourselves and keep seeking new self-help methods to decrease our time online? We can learn from the past because in this case the tech companies did not innovate. Instead, the technology industry manipulated us following an old playbook, put together by other powerful industries, including the tobacco and food industries.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/our-minds-have-been-hijacked-by-our-phones-tristan-harris-wants-to-rescue-them/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/story/our-minds-have-been-hijacked-by-...</a><p>Gaia Bernstein, author is this article, has a new book out "Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies"