Report: Facebook and Google can’t play nice, and users are pawns in the game
Jan04
Of all the things a developer shouldn’t do, creating resistance for users is one of them. According to a new report, Facebook did just that to test user loyalty. From The Information: Facebook has tested the loyalty and patience of Android users by secretly introducing artificial errors that would automatically crash the app for hours at a time, says one person familiar with the one-time experiment. The purpose of the test, which happened several years ago, was to see at what threshold would a person ditch the Facebook app altogether. The report also suggests Facebook made its Android app unavailable…
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