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Most of googles products are not based on addiction. You use google search because you have to find something. You don't spend hours randomly browsing search results. Youtube will take a hit from this but the rest of google is not an addiction business.

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Sometimes you Google cos you carnt be arsed to think about it.

Sometimes you google something and get a full page of paid for clickable links and you click one of them instead of scrolling to the "organic search".

Sometimes you dont pay enough attention to what are real search results and what are adverts.

A statistically significant sometimes.

Is instant gratification at the cost of long term gain adiction? Not sure. Its pretty close.

Dont put your phone face down, put it away.

Most of Google's revenue is based on addiction. You see more ads the longer you use the internet.

I spend a large amount of time on the internet, but I use duck duck go and have ad blockers turned on. When I turn off add blockers it makes me want to spend less time on the internet.

Google search is very needs based. You need to search things pretty much every day, You will use their service regularly simply because it's so useful for getting things done. You don't need to check facebook every 5 minutes and make regular posts or comments.

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