Basically means they will be incentivised to make their app discoverability algorithm worse, to encourage companies to pay them for ads. Kinda like Google did with ads coming above the search results forcing companies to buy ads to be displayed at the top even when you search for the company directly.
MS Teams is the buggiest thing I have ever had the misfortune to use. I have to log in daily to use it – the browser is a better option than the standalone client as it's easier to wipe everything and start again. Yesterday, I received the following errors during two meetings:
1) I was unable to login in Chrome – "An unexpected error has occurred"
2) In an incognito mode browser window, I was unable to login due to not permitting the use of 3rd party cookies, despite whitelisting those in Chrome's preferences
3) I wiped cookies all cookies and tried again in a normal window – I was able to log in, but when trying to have a call, I was told "This feature is only available in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge". I was using Chrome.
4) I therefore swapped to a chrome-based browser that spoofs its user-agent as the previous version, Iridium.
5) This enabled me to start a call. It worked fine, but during the process of the meeting, the mute/video/screensharing/leave bar completely vanished, leaving a black box at the top (and me unable to mute myself or share my screen)
6) During the next meeting, about 30 s after the end of the previous one (I refreshed the page to get the box back), the camera periodically turned off with the message "Your video isn't working. We couldn't access your camera".
7) I have previously emailed M$ support highlighting these issues. The response I received was "We are aware that Teams isn't perfect and are working hard to improve it continually".
The only way to get MS Teams to work reliably on my Mac is to start it up first, then click on the meeting link to go to the browser and then on to Teams. I start the process 5 minutes before the first meeting.
My personal anecdote, I don't have any issues with Teams on my Mac. Our organization is a Microsoft shop. I'm one of 3 Mac users only because I develop our iOS apps, so it isn't like our IT has some exceptional skills with Apple products.
Its absolutely a piece of trash software that needs to be open sourced so it can be better. My hatred for MS teams is insurmountable. Its buggy, slow as fuck, very sluggish, takes up a shitton of my resources and RAM. I hate MS teams with a passion.
Not sure if I want to advance brain science, maybe these companies can be legally held accountable... Or maybe gambling companies will get to the research first and manipulate us.
The comment you replied to above, expressed that organizations and people involved in exploiting gambling addicts should be punished for doing so.
Sure, they said “legally held accountable” and you replied that these organizations are already operating legally.
So then the matter is: should these companies be allowed to continue operating as they currently do because it’s legal? Or should we push for laws/regulations to be changed so they stop exploiting people?
This is not a matter of fact issue. It’s a moral, political, and yes subjective, issue.
So your question, even if you didn’t intend it to, very much has to do with morality.
