why do i need to update the app so i can see changes. Whats the point of a change log then? I have auto updates off cause it a hassle to revert back to an earlier version if I dont like the changes. I know for a fact the ig update is for their new stupid map feature and AI shit. I will not update unless it stops working completely. Is it so hard to say what specific bug was fixed and what exactly do you mean by performance. why cant it be detailed like this

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    I can understand a banking app such as Chime* wanting to obfuscate whatever bugs or potential exploits they’ve come across and patched - to prevent users on older versions from being targeted; but the rest of those examples are utterly bullshit.

    I put forward Duolingo as another egregious example of this bullshit:

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    You expect them to admit:

    • Implemented more aggressive collection of personal data to sell to advertisers.

    • Advertisers of medical and beauty supplements are now suggested to your teenage daughter if she deleted her picture minutes after not receieving likes.

    • Users who advocate for neonazi and genocidal idologies now get suggested to each other to better promote and organize which returns higher profit of targetted advertisements as their usage time and activities increase together.

    • As part of our new monitoring and speech policy, users are now allowed to use the word retard, removed, f-word, tranny, and n-word with hard R without their posts getting flagged or reviewed which allows for better targetted advertisements and higher revenue for the Zuck.

    • Data collection now includes geophraphical tracking of your friends and intrests of people you follow giving higher revenue for shareholders.

    • Implemented analysis of background data collection of users usage and screen time, which gives higher profits per click to our targetted adveretisers.

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    The obvious answer is there’s no human at the helm recording changes, it’s just the next build. You’ll take it and you’ll like it.

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      Or that the person writing the changelog is in marketing and knows that end users will be seeing this as communication directly from the company. Marketing people tend to foam at the mouth when they see a chance to “connect with their users”.

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      The app must be so fast that it has transcended to a higher plane of existence if it gets faster every update.

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        I find it deeply offensive that an app could suggest I may not know the word “cornucopia.” I wouldn’t give a shit if it was the only app I could use to pay my bills; if it at any point suggested that I didn’t know a word as common as “cornucopia,” I would delete it immediately, leave a 0 star review, and post the offense to a community like this.

        And just to be clear, the bar for how uncommon a word would have to be in order for it not be offensive is way higher than cornu-fucking-copia.

        “Terpsichorean.” That’s a word I wouldn’t be offended if they thought I didn’t know it. Or maybe “legerdemain.” I know both of those words, but I wouldn’t be offended.

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          Hmm, those are cool

          Terpsichorean - “pertaining to dance” Legerdemain - “someone who is particularly skilled with one’s hands in the use of conjuring tricks”

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        That was the most upsetting of all of the examples. How condescending (GoOgLe iT). What an ass.

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    • more ads
    • more pointless notifications
    • taken out that one thing you actually liked and put it behind a paywall
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      The meal planning app that I use got bought out by Samsung and they did this. Put a load of ads in and then advertised a “+” version that got rid of ads. The ads were just advertising the “+” feature. 12 months later they said they were going to remove the ads for everyone.

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      We improved our tracking algorithms to more accurately monitor your every move.

      We found an unpatched microphone exploit that let’s us listen in on all of your conversations.

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    I would rather no change log than the LLM generated fall thing… that was a waste of time to read.

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    “Bugfixes and performance improvements”

    I see that one all the time from big companies because it sounds nice and tells you nothing.

    One of those updates a few years included embedding adware. So, thanks for that… jackhole