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The power of A/B testing. Fuck over a small portion of your users and observe the results and the users are just guinea pigs.
It's genius. No matter how upsetting or disgusting a change is, they can roll it out to just the right partition of users designed to prevent a critical mass of people getting upset enough to congregate and do anything about it collectively.
Their genius is not from A/B testing, the genius is normalizing the proliferation of non-free programs that only the software's landlord apparent can control.
We are just tenants who meekly ask for a license contract to use their programs. Only with a libre (software shared collectively) program do you actually become a user and not used.