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> the corporate benevolent overlords of the Web went all-in on those exact things The marketing and management arms might have been the ones to make the decisi
by nineteen999 7y ago
> the corporate benevolent overlords of the Web went all-in on those exact things
The marketing and management arms might have been the ones to make the decision to go "all-in", but it was the web developers who implemented it.
Sure, a paycheck is a paycheck and all that, but let's not pretend that the developer community has clean hands in all this.
- millzlane 7y agolet's be real every piece of code written has the ability to destroy lives. Just like there are people out there willing to shoot you in the face for your wallet. There are people willing to write code to spy on you for a paycheck.
- nineteen999 7y ago> let's be real every piece of code written has the ability to destroy lives Not really, but then I work in emergency services infrastructure and every line of code in our product is intended to help first responders save lives. I agree with the rest of your comments though.
- taurath 7y agoThe developers and technical people who invented them are the ones who made much the money. Everyone I know who works in ad tech has gone through several acquisitions and is stinking rich - they tend to be on the more sociopathic side though. Just a correlation I’ve seen.