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Reminds me of a quote by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys: "I’d rather be a hypocrite than the same person forever." The only way to get better is to change the
by ogre_codes 6y ago
Reminds me of a quote by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys:
"I’d rather be a hypocrite than the same person forever."
The only way to get better is to change the things you did incorrectly in the past.
This doesn't mean it was illegal (or even unethical). Fifteen years ago few people anticipated the privacy implications of smartphones and many people didn't anticipate exactly how much this stuff would be abused. But in order to get better, they need to change their policy.
- SiempreViernes 6y agoI'm don't think I've ever considered MCA a great philosopher, and after reading that self-contradicting quote the outlook for that to change is still murky. Plainly: being a hypocrite is about doing in opposition to what you preach, it's unrelated to changing your mind. It's strange too that you go back to 2005, what with the iphone was out only by 2007 and the IDFA launched in 2013. Incidentally, IDFA was create as a way to limit the methods advertisers could use to track users, even as it expanded the pool of users tracked. And in 2013 the idea that digital tracking, as supplied by for example apple, could be bad was certainly not groundbreaking.
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