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Can you imagine the mental hoops you’d need to jump through as a developer to persuade yourself that this is a valid thing to implement?
My experience is that most developers just do as they are told.
I wish we could just ban advertising and tracking on the internet. I feel like so much crap these days has come out of it, all so that CEOs can afford an extra yacht
The deprecation of third-party cookies, that all browsers were at one point on track to implement , was pretty much the most realistic first step to that. Which is why Google killed it last year by leveraging their control over Chrome. While not technically a crime, it was a disgusting, unethical market manipulation move that never really got the public outrage it deserved. Google execs’ initial support for it was al…
It seems like damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t.
What happened to all the hackers fighting for personal freedom and privacy? Meta paycheck too tasty?
In the early days of the information revolution, when computers were new and being nerdy was still seen (almost universally) as a bad thing, a very high proportion of computer enthusiasts were people already on the fringes of society, for one reason or another. For a large number of them, hacking was a way to express their preexisting antiestablishment tendencies. For a lot of them, they were also your basic angsty a…
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at some point yah reach a cross road. either sellout and join big brother or join the wandering homeless hordes on the streets.
Eh. You can have a very comfortable career doing work that still lets you look at yourself in the mirror. You don’t have to choose to burn the world to pay the rent.
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There are over 300M companies in the world. It seems only 2 companies did this. So look at the revenue models of the other 299,999,998 companies. Meta only started this less than a year ago, so look at their revenue model prior to that.
Doing something like this should result in Meta and such being legally annihilated. But nothing will happen, as usual.