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Facebook app installed on GrapheneOS... talk about an intense yin/yang.
What's wrong? GrapheneOS is the perfect tool for that. They are installed into a work profile. Created specifically for all the untrusted shit around. Moreover, the networking in that profile is routed through a VPN.
I mostly used the app for uploading pictures. Once I stopped using the app, FB started making the mobile site push you into using the app. That's around the time I stopped uploading pictures to facebook.
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> In the end I've also restricted Telegram and now my battery lasts for 17 hours. Do notifications for messages still work in restricted mode (sorry if silly question) ?
Yes. But there may be delays and sometimes when you tap on a notification nothing happens.
What I can't believe: Facebook shipped a feature to drain users' batteries. What I can believe: Engineers at Facebook were micromanaged into dismissing issues such as users' batteries being drained.
Yeah, the boss didn't care about user's battery. From the article: I said to the manager, 'This can harm somebody,' and she said by harming a few we can help the greater masses. Any data scientist worth his or her salt will know, Don’t hurt people,
This is an AdTech business. They’re not curing cancer. How far up your own ass do you have to be to say that?
Anecdata: I pretty much never go on Facebook anymore and now my phone battery comfortably lasts all day. The current worst app on my phone is Duolingo, it guzzles 15% in about 15 mins and makes the phone noticeably hot. The most impressive app is Apple Music which feels like it should use a lot of battery but doesn’t.
Why would a music app use a lot of battery? Apple has been optimizing its hardware for over 20 years to play media efficiently.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover on arrival that I still had 100% battery life.
If they are bumping up battery consumption, either I've never been in the test group or they aren't bumping it enough to be a real risk.
Hard to say from the article but I think the accusation is not that Facebook is deliberately running down batteries (why?) but that they are deliberately running tests in the background which run down batteries, eg. surreptitiously having a user's app run unnecessary image compression or decompression.
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Yeah, the boss didn't care about user's battery. From the article: I said to the manager, 'This can harm somebody,' and she said by harming a few we can help the greater masses. Any data scientist worth his or her salt will know, Don’t hurt people,
> and she said by harming a few we can help the greater masses. This is an AdTech business. They’re not curing cancer. How far up your own ass do you have to be to say that?
PS. This does not excuse shitty behaviour of course.
This article is very hard to follow! I get that there was a lawsuit and the ex employee said that they what they were doing might harm people. But what were they actually doing? Draining the battery on purpose for some reason? Or was it just an unfortunate side effect of something?
I'm assuming the opposite of battery optimizations. Some developers prefer functionality over battery life: https://dontkillmyapp.com/