> ...the single greatest abomination I’ve seen a corporation claiming to support the LGTBQ+ community commit. Just wait a few months, something else will proba

> ...the single greatest abomination I’ve seen a corporation claiming to support the LGTBQ+ community commit. Just wait a few months, something else will probably show up. Remember that "claiming to support the LGBTQ+ community" is, in almost every case, just a calculated way to increase their profits. Change a few logos, let the PR department fund a float, and wait for the additional dollars to roll in! > Frankly, this makes me want to preemptively leave HER (the lesbian equivalent of Grindr) - before I find out the same shit is happening. Good. Do it. The entire core of our modern consumer tech ecosystem is based around this sort of deception and lying. If it's a popular app, it's making the money on the backend somewhere. Robinhood (the stock trading app) was literally just selling off order flows to the high frequency traders who would pay them rather obscenely large sums of money for the "Heyo, I've got someone ready to buy 15 shares of GME, I'm going to buy 15 shares of GME now, and... buy!" data. They existed to sell out an audience who didn't know better for fractions of a cent per trade, but in volume. If you don't mind some dense reading, Zuboff's book on Surveillance Capitalism is well worth the read. The author is just in love with high scoring Scrabble words for no good reason, unless she finds a reason to invent a new word instead. But the outcome of it is that you'll want to regularly frisbee your smartphone across the room into the nearest wall without a case. "Modern consumer tech" is absolutely, 150%, at odds with any concept of personal privacy. And the more people start opting out, the sooner we can go back to "My personal habits are not your profits."