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Didn't Google pull a move like this on Project Dragonfly - publicly state that they were dropping the project after outrage, and then quietly continue developin

Didn't Google pull a move like this on Project Dragonfly - publicly state that they were dropping the project after outrage, and then quietly continue developing it in secret? I am extremely skeptical that Microsoft will simply shelve the user-specific monitoring feature. In fact, I outright don't believe them.

FridgeSeal 6y ago
> I am extremely skeptical that Microsoft will simply shelve If it makes money (directly or indirectly) or can be used to power a (feature/data/etc) moat of some kind you can absolutely bet it will return: it's been implemented now, and capitalism means that profit-motives ensure there's always pressure to bring it back, and if it's just some PR manoeuvring and the flick of a switch to re-enable it, it just becomes a case of "when" and not "if".