Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp

Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by ainiriand on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:48AM (#16105092)

I take your word for that, but it is not an excuse to disconnect users/numbers/visits from real human beings. So you see that people in India are using a 20$ phone to use whatsapp with your app and the only thing that comes to your mind is how can you rip them off with a daily subscription that wasn't there before? And a crooked lottery?!?! You need to have a very small amount of empathy to do that.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by girvo on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:57AM (#16105131)

Those server costs do not pay for themselves. Me personally, I’d likely just block them altogether.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by StavrosK on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @06:00AM (#16105150)

"I'm sorry, I can't support this use case so I'm blocking Jio phones" is fine. "You have to pay for this service" is fine. "Please tweet to use the service" is fine.

Saying "please tweet to use the service" and then blocking people anyway is lying. Making fun of people for doing what you asked so they can fulfill one of their needs is scummy. Telling people to Tweet to increase their chances in a lottery and then not actually doing it is also scummy.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by thesmallestcat on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:54AM (#16105118)

A feeble attempt at offsetting the cost of massive server load is not trying to "rip them off."

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