“Brussels is preparing legislation that would ban infinite scroll, autoplay, and engagement-driven feed algorithms on platforms used by minors.”
Brussels is doing what no American legislature has been able to do, which is regulate dark patterns out of consumer software. Whether it works is a different question. The platforms will sue, find loopholes, and pivot to whatever pattern the law forgot to name. The fact that they have to keep pivoting is itself a tax on the bad behavior. That is what regulation looks like when it is written with teeth.