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Instagram Apologizes for Bug That Briefly Allowed Users’ Posts to be Viewed by Their Followers (thehardtimes.net)

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

“Their analysts determined that frustrating the user results in more time spent on the app—and more time viewing ads—than if users are satisfied. Remember in ‘The Matrix’ when The Architect tells Neo that the first virtual world the robots created was a utopia, but the people rejected it? It works sort of like that.”

Brilliant.