Instagram: Don’t fear the dark (pattern)

In case for a brief moment you thought the people behind Instagram weren’t committed to being awful, check this TechCrunch article on how they have changed the daily time limit option so that the minimum time before you can have the app warn you to take a break is now 30 minutes, instead of 10, and also made the longest option (3 hours) the first one at the top of the list.

I don’t know that the people designing this stuff actually believe they’re fooling anyone, but they are bad and should feel bad. I can’t wait for everything Meta owns to crash and burn.

Instagram quietly limits ‘daily time limit’ option