Source: https://xcancel.com/dshiatt/status/1840822267737162237

Obviously just damage control but they do seem to be “fixing it”. They must’ve accidentally implemented a feature to get and show image from the newest news post (which is often an ad), accidentally tested and vetted that feature, and accidentally pushed it.

  • Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    170·
    3 months ago

    Ah yes it’s always a bug after massive community backlash. If there wasn’t much, it’d have been a test, and if there wasn’t any, it was always intended.

    • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      48·
      3 months ago

      ahhh, companies copying homework from bigots’ dogwhistling tactics? what a brave new world we live in

      says something bigoted

      receives backlash

      “haha guys can’t you take a joke? everyone’s so sensitive nowadays”

    • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      Telling gamers to watch out for Hanlon’s razor would open them to too much harsh reflection of their own mistakes.

      • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        3 months ago

        yes sure it could’ve been a bug, but can we really believe them that it was?

        companies are on a quest to pollute our lives with ads, it’s not a stretch to think it’s bullshit when another attempt to do that is being denied with “whoopsie the new guy wrote the code wrong nothing to worry about here!”

  • lemmylommy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    79·
    3 months ago

    Don’t you hate it when there is a bug in your code that magically attracts ads? They just appear without warning or reason.

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    3 months ago

    I don’t understand how giant corporations repeatedly get away with treating their customers like they’re completely fucking stupid.

    Some manager purposefully ordered the engineers to put the ads there. That’s how they ended up there

    • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      Mostly it’s the lack of competition.

      On one hand, regulators allowed big companies to become monopolies, so we don’t have a choice. Imagine if instagram and whatsapp were not part of facebook, how different social media would be? Or if bumble and hinge were competing with tinder, not just all being a part of match.com.

      And on the other hand, we have examples like the console “war”, where Xbox messed up this generation so hard, that Sony now can do whatever they want.

      • Orion the Elder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        I don’t buy it. PC and Nintendo are more than enough competition. Sony has always been this way and they always will be. Company culture doesn’t change, Nintendo will always be letigious, Microsoft will always seek acquisitions and Sony will always be arrogant.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    37·
    3 months ago

    The bug was that it was rolled out prior to when they wanted to roll it out.

    They’re definitely gonna try and put ads in there in the future. 😬 Was just comparing experiences with another user here last night about this (they had the ads but I did not) and seeing as they were across the pond from me and don’t even have the hub yet, it’s like they were just testing the waters in a specific region.

  • elxeno@lemm.eeEnglish
    35·
    3 months ago

    Someone made a typo in the code, ads show up… Happens all the time

  • ATDA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    3 months ago

    I love when people say it was a bug.

    Yeah bugs happen.

    Bugs don’t program themselves to do a specific function, that’s just called a function (language depending.)

  • eighty@lemmy.oneEnglish
    27·
    3 months ago

    I disagree with the implication that users should “settle down” when faced with user-unfriendly experiences.

    User silence is often taken as permission to continue shitty practices that build up overtime. Bloated games that are unoptimized, online subscription to play online, not even fully owning the games, not able to use your own bluetooth headset etc.

    This tweet just perpetuates how consumer-hostile nature of these companies. It attempts to play down a potential revenue stream at the expense of UX, subtle gaslight users into thinking this is part of the “over-reactionary culture” when this a perfectly valid criticism, and makes no attempt to be sympathetic about these implications.

    Honestly, this has made me swore off a PS5 and future sony consoles. It’s no longer affordable, convenient, or simply. I do love my DS4 controller tho.

  • PunchingWood@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    3 months ago

    Ah yes totally a bug, something specifically developed to show a very specific kind of content in a very specific location. Totally a bug.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    Remember when mandatory Bethesda account in Doom64 was “just a bug” and then Doom Eternal had it for real?

  • zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    Good luck selling your $700 locked-down computer with no gaems but enshittified to hell and back.

  • Phegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    Totally a bug to show ads, and not an attempt to see what they can get away with and then lie when there is a negative reaction.