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Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty?

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Re: Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty?

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Sounds like you guys and your apps are a mess. Is this really where we wanted our mobile experience to go? You know what rarely crashes for me? m.facebook.com on a web browser. Facebook will never get installed on any device I own. Ever.

I'm not a Facebook user myself, but I've heard that the Facebook website can now send notifications through the browser, effectively eliminating the need of a bloated, buggy app.

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Re: Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty?

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Funny enough: the FB app never crashed on me, but Twitter does reproducibly crash after about 20 actions (Android). Whatsapp however regularly loses its connection on Wifi (even when on battery, and wifi powersaving is disabled), and after 6 hours I see "oh, 20 new messages"... Problem of scale is that neither of the three (or, actually two) companies has a public bug tracker where one could report bugs and see if an…

Sounds like you guys and your apps are a mess. Is this really where we wanted our mobile experience to go? You know what rarely crashes for me? m.facebook.com on a web browser. Facebook will never get installed on any device I own. Ever.

Me too, i use just the mobile version of facebook.com.

I know that exist Tinfoil if you concerned about privacy:

https://fossdroid.com/a/tinfoil-for-facebook.html

Re: Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty?

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Did you use some tool or browser extension to generate this?

No the one you asked either, but I usually email me@onenote.com [1] from my Gmail account with the URL in the subject, and it saves the page as content AND as a long picture. It would probably not work here since it would require to be logged in or something, in that case I guess OneNote Clipper [2] would do the trick. [1] https://www.onenote.com/EmailToOneNote [2] http://www.brucebnews.com/2015/03/onenote-clipper-is…

Sounds like Stallman's web program. [1]

> I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly.

[1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Re: Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty?

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linked in the article: https://www.theinformation.com/facebooks-android-contingency...

The lede in that story doesn't even mention intentional crashes, anything not behind a paywall?

yes, here: http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/4/10708590/facebook-google-an...

This is original reporting by The Information. They are the source of it, but they're behind a paywall so we get links to blog posts about it. If you want the source, you have to deal with a paywall.

Re: Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty?

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In my non-technical circle of friends most of us have recently given up and uninstalled the Facebook app because of resource usage and undesired notifications rather than crashes. I don't care if the app crashes every now and then when I use it. I hate when it sends me notifications of people I've met once and runs constantly in the background to do so.
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