44 Facebook secretly killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit (nypost.com) posted 1 year ago by Gazerbeam 1 year ago by Gazerbeam +44 / -0 Facebook secretly killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit The practice, known as “negative testing,” allows tech companies to “surreptitiously” run down someone’s mobile juice in the name of testing features or issues such as… 20 comments share 20 comments share save hide report block hide replies
"We should make permanent data-suckers that sap processing power, space, and battery life on our phones."
"Why are people jailbreaking their phones to delete our software?!"
If they're putting their software on your phone in a way that it is difficult to delete, they know what they are doing. FB has determined they get more customers via lock in than they lose by pissing people off.