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It's not just "some" web developers. It's absolutely everywhere. Developers can just refuse to build awful websites that are user-hostile and violate privacy.

• dageshi 8y ago
  The people who use those websites won't pay for them. If given the choice between a paid website that offers some information/service and a privacy invading, popup spewing site that's free but has what people want, 99%+ will choose the latter every time. So people pay in inconvenience/annoying experience instead of actual money, we are after all using sites that presumably offer us some value and expecting to get it all for free, but every site, every page cost some about of money to be built and a majority of people who built them will want to recoup that cost somehow... So I am frankly quite happy to build most of these features, they are how people actually earn a living from their sites.
  • gizmo 8y ago
    People don't know the extent to which their privacy is being invaded. People don't know what kind of deal they're making; there is no informed consent. The presumption that a website must offer value otherwise it wouldn't have any visitors, is false. Some websites just make people unhappy and anxious, but they are addictive (and engineered to be addictive) so people keep coming back regardless. There are no rational consumers, and if you design the web (or society at large) under the presumption that people are perfectly rational you end up with a sad dystopia. Content is being produced at such a rate that there is absolutely no reason to be concerned that crummy websites that use unethical practices go out of business. Good riddance, I'd say.