Damn, I guess I skimmed the article with my short attention span :). He's right, but the title is clickbaity.

Where does the unattributed, axis-doesn't-start-at-zero chart of declining attention span come from? It looks like there were five sample years since 2000, but who was sampled, and "attention span" was measured how? "As the chart shows, attention spans are plummeting" is not very impressive when the chart is just a line that goes down and some mysterious times in seconds. Tineye had nothing.

But not installing/using or blocking those apps is as much of an alternative as using a dumb phone.

Just start a blog instead