Source: https://xcancel.com/dshiatt/status/1840822267737162237
Obviously just damage control but they do seem to be “fixing it”. They must’ve accidentally implemented a feature to get and show image from the newest news post (which is often an ad), accidentally tested and vetted that feature, and accidentally pushed it.
Ah yes it’s always a bug after massive community backlash. If there wasn’t much, it’d have been a test, and if there wasn’t any, it was always intended.
ahhh, companies copying homework from bigots’ dogwhistling tactics? what a brave new world we live in
says something bigoted
receives backlash
“haha guys can’t you take a joke? everyone’s so sensitive nowadays”
Telling gamers to watch out for Hanlon’s razor would open them to too much harsh reflection of their own mistakes.
yes sure it could’ve been a bug, but can we really believe them that it was?
companies are on a quest to pollute our lives with ads, it’s not a stretch to think it’s bullshit when another attempt to do that is being denied with “whoopsie the new guy wrote the code wrong nothing to worry about here!”
Don’t you hate it when there is a bug in your code that magically attracts ads? They just appear without warning or reason.
you don’t get entire functional UI elements accurately populated with appropriate data out of a “bug”. at best its a feature that was being tested internally and never would have made it past that, at worst its something that went live early.
I can see how that’s a bug that it got released if the intended purpose was to do a POC and gauge the reaction from some internal testers.
But even then they were POC-ing that, which is terrible
I don’t understand how giant corporations repeatedly get away with treating their customers like they’re completely fucking stupid.
Some manager purposefully ordered the engineers to put the ads there. That’s how they ended up there
Mostly it’s the lack of competition.
On one hand, regulators allowed big companies to become monopolies, so we don’t have a choice. Imagine if instagram and whatsapp were not part of facebook, how different social media would be? Or if bumble and hinge were competing with tinder, not just all being a part of match.com.
And on the other hand, we have examples like the console “war”, where Xbox messed up this generation so hard, that Sony now can do whatever they want.
Man I sure hate it when your dev teams spend all sprint developing a bug!
