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Look we all know how the world works so please, spare the BS. By all means do your job, and hit your metrics. But this is just a dark pattern, which comes up w

Look we all know how the world works so please, spare the BS. By all means do your job, and hit your metrics. But this is just a dark pattern, which comes up with some new product boundaries so you can default these settings back to on. There's a certain arrogance to coming into HN of all places and offering a sales explanation that it's actually in our benefit.

dang 5y ago
Please don't cross into personal attack. You don't need it to make your substantive points, and it poisons the ecosystem. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=disincent%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
- Arcsech 5y ago
  I don’t see a personal attack here.
  - dang 5y ago
    You have a point—maybe not really a personal attack, but still aggressive and poisonous and therefore not what we want here.
grog454 5y ago
It's unfortunate that this post is being downvoted and considered a "personal attack" (debatable) as it seems to be one of if not the only comment suggesting the most likely explanation: a Google employee trying to maximize engagement / usage metrics for their feature without really thinking through the broader implications. This seems much more likely to me than a grand conspiracy to sneakily collect more peoples' data.
- hnfong 5y ago
  I also fail to see where the personal attack lies...