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What you're saying is a pretty condescending way to treat other people's opinions. You're essentially questioning whether or not they really understand (complet

What you're saying is a pretty condescending way to treat other people's opinions. You're essentially questioning whether or not they really understand (complete with scare quotes) if they don't share your opinion. It's not the "contextual understanding" - or any kind of understanding - that makes some techies uneasy. It's their own opinions and personal comfortability with regard to data monetization. Many people understand their data is monetized in myriad ways and fully don't care. Asking if they actually understand is only going to patronize them.

ddingus 8y ago
Actually, they are questioning whether understanding makes sense, given people are unaware, uninformed. The answer on all that is advocacy. They may still not care, and that is fine. At least it is with eyes wide open. Professionals do that sort of thing. It is consideration, not condescension.
reificator 8y ago
I get where you're coming from, but it applies to me equally in plenty of other domains. There are countless things I understand the basics of but am not an expert in. That's why we specialize, because we can't be experts in everything all the time. I don't mean it to be condescending, I mean to express that I can know that stars are powered by nuclear reactions and yet not have a firm grasp of what that really entails. Most people, including myself, have a shallow understanding of a lot of things, and a deep understanding of very few things relatively speaking.
Aeolun 8y ago
And yet, given a parallel into what is happening as if it were a different company ‘e.g. would you be fine with our man standing outside your house and observing your every movement as a condition of service’, most of these people that ‘understand’ switch to WTF?! No! If you then ask them to stop using Chrome or Facebook it’s suddenly ‘different’. The only thing that’s different is that they can remain blissfully unaware of it.

ddingus 8y ago

Actually, they are questioning whether understanding makes sense, given people are unaware, uninformed. The answer on all that is advocacy. They may still not care, and that is fine. At least it is with eyes wide open. Professionals do that sort of thing. It is consideration, not condescension.

reificator 8y ago

I get where you're coming from, but it applies to me equally in plenty of other domains. There are countless things I understand the basics of but am not an expert in. That's why we specialize, because we can't be experts in everything all the time. I don't mean it to be condescending, I mean to express that I can know that stars are powered by nuclear reactions and yet not have a firm grasp of what that really entails. Most people, including myself, have a shallow understanding of a lot of things, and a deep understanding of very few things relatively speaking.

Aeolun 8y ago

And yet, given a parallel into what is happening as if it were a different company ‘e.g. would you be fine with our man standing outside your house and observing your every movement as a condition of service’, most of these people that ‘understand’ switch to WTF?! No! If you then ask them to stop using Chrome or Facebook it’s suddenly ‘different’. The only thing that’s different is that they can remain blissfully unaware of it.