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When Facebook came for your battery, feudal security failed
- java-man 4y agoIt is probably unrelated, but opening an Imgur app for a few minutes, then closing it on my iPhone completely drains the battery after 15-20 minutes.
- shortcake27 4y agoMany years ago I had an “issue” with Facebook where it just sat there draining battery in the background even with background app refresh turned off. Assumed it was a bug. But now I’m wondering https://mg.medium.com/battery-life-load-times-and-actually-giving-a-shit-about-your-customers-c3738386bded https://mg.medium.com/battery-life-load-times-and-actually-g...
- GauntletWizard 4y agoBack almost 10 years ago, Facebook ran negative tests about what showed up on your news feed. To the point they had a statistical model of how many percentage points of increased rate of suicide it caused. And I'm not talking euphemistically; Facebook has a field for "is this user probably dead" and "cause of death" and the reports on experiments about mood-filtering on news feed items included a line item on "rate of suicide" and nobody on that team cared it was whole -digit percentages up. Facebook has long employed unit 731 style experiments. This is no surprise.
- barbariangrunge 4y agoIt’s a really good blog, I just wish they published less often. I couldn’t keep up with the newsletters and had to unsubscribe as part of reducing the amount of email I get