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I really wonder how it feels to create user-hostile software like that that is borderline malicious and barely adds any value.
by Traubenfuchs 10y ago
I really wonder how it feels to create user-hostile software like that that is borderline malicious and barely adds any value.
- crispyambulance 10y agoThat's an interesting question. There was a good thread here on exactly that (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11806739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11806739) a while back. It was a Backchannel story about an "adtech" company in Philly: "The Perks Are Great. Just Don’t Ask Us What We Do." Basically, a surprisingly large number of employees don't know or don't care about the ethics of what a small number of leaders in their company do. Others justify such actions to themselves in convoluted ways. Only a small number truly can't deal with it.