Pulse SMS App for Android recently updated to include:
New “Discover” Section: Find new offers, inspiring content, articles & more
On a messaging app, really??? Who wants any of those features when trying to message someone?
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2024
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wow pulse used to be great. did luke sell? i remember he open sourced it in 2020 but the repo seems to be gone: https://github.com/klinker-apps/pulse-sms-android
edit: huh looks like they got bought in oct. 2020. https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/10/29/it-looks-like-pulse-sms-has-been-bought-by-maple-media-get-ready-for-intrusive-ads/
(there is another repo here https://github.com/jarvanh/pulse-sms-android but i'm not sure how official it is)
The great thing is that you can simply uninstall it and leave an inspiring review.
As a former product manager where the CEO led the sales team, I feel seen.
The dude who made VSCode Stories sold it for some cash.
A feature so useless that I use VS Code almost daily and had no idea this existed
I mean, credit to Microsoft and VS Code for not putting bullshit like this right in your face
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My favorite is menstruation calendars with friend lists. My least favorite is when my gynecologist wants to hang out only a week out of the month.
Please tell me this is a real world example because that's hilariously awful.
God, I hope it’s not real. But it’s the only way to sell more analytics from a period app and thus an eventuality.
If you ever feel useless just remember somebody designed and implemented the share-to-facebook feature on porn sites.
Wanted to prove people used those buttons, but maybe not (need to use better/unblocked terms I suppose):
Low Stakes Conspiracies: that share button is there to get users banned. Activist admins or funded by Musk himself?
(Yeah, they pulled a permanent Twitter Taylor Swift on Pornhub.)
Proof 404 (2003)
I didn't believe you but can confirm this blank search within the Facebook app. Instagram, by the same parent company, has lots of results though. Guess all the puritanical boomers are on Facebook not Insta
I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of "shadow ban" style component to this. I think Tumblr does something like that where postsand tags that are marked as sexually explicit can't be found by searching for them, but if you're following the person, you can see them.
If you're ever depressed about building useless software just remember - leveraged buyouts are a thing. You could buy your company for nothing by just putting massive debt in the company account and actually manage it right.
Well, in theory, in actuality this piece of accounting bullshit is reserved for vulture capitalists that will destroy the value of the company and asshats (see: Elon Musk) that will destroy the value of the company.
Capitalism destroys everything that we build!
Well unless you somehow able to liquidate more money than the debt, the lender is the fool. The original founder practically got an exit that all startups wanted, you get the cheated money, but the lender gets nothing. You have to be able to fool someone into this position first.
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That isn’t there so people use it. That is there so that Facebook can track where you go
Course they only need a 1px by 1px image for that right?
Shoutout Facebook Container for Firefox, or Firefox if you’re still using a browser that’s killing the open web 😉
You don't need to use that extension anymore, Total Cookie Protection already does the job and is enabled by default on Firefox and Firefox Mobile. Could be useful if you use more than one account, tho.
Ah neat!
Neither FB Container & First Party Isolation no longer relevant for the average user then. Forward!
You get the added bonus of a reduced unique fingerprint because one less extension
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At this point both of these guys are saying "I have seen horrible things"
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No man. That is a brilliant feature that has caught out many "anti-gay" politician's.