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> Obviously installing spyware is wrong, ethically and legally. Why bother writing this post if this is your view? You know damn well there's a difference betw
by yupper32 5y ago
> Obviously installing spyware is wrong, ethically and legally.
Why bother writing this post if this is your view? You know damn well there's a difference between a web browser preinstalled on a Macbook and someone installing their own spyware. And yet, you write a post against my point of view.
- IggleSniggle 5y agoBecause in this particular scenario there’s zero functional difference, even if in the only slightly more general, there is an absolutely huge difference. In the specifics of the implementation, the ethical details are the same. In the more general, quite different. And that’s sort of the point. It may be unethical art, but it’s no more unethical than what’s happening across millions of websites and billions of devices. It’s not more unethical than the work of countless corporate ad (and otherwise) engineering hours focused on the Wonder of the World that is surveillance capitalism.