WEI could require secureboot, so you could no longer modify the OS or Chrome to "pipe" those requests.
We are just saving them money, imagine the amount of API calls for serving Ads to everyone /s
My bad. It was just oversimplification and poor wording. What I meant was the Internet was good when its barrier to entry was higher than today.
The internet was good when it's all just geeks
I wonder if it's possible to migrate those Reddit datasets and import them into our own Lemmy instance
Most A/B tests are experiments on features, not on their users.
There's a difference in finding out what features users likes and let's see if we can manipulate their feelings or get them depressed.
The one Facebook did is not really A/B feature testing.
Those who opt-in to tests can have biased results, it's like asking those running Windows 11 if they like Windows 11 more than Windows 10.
Maybe their caching doesn't work for private subreddits
Reddit: The A/B test results looks great, let's go with the one our VC likes even they weren't part of the test