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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] DxK 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I too enjoy repeating the joke I just saw but removing all of the distracting humor.