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I'm not saying it's better, but that it is unavoidable given current market conditions. We all want our data to be handled securely, and we should try to under

• throwanem 4y ago
  There's a difference between understanding why people behave dishonestly, and making excuses for dishonest behavior. You're doing the second one under the color of the first. No one has to make a dating app. I don't see how "no one else could do it without betraying their users either!" as you argue - and, again, even granting this is true, which you've done nothing thus far to show - excuses the actual betrayal that actually has occurred. If you'd like to make an argument that it does, I'd be interested to hear that.
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  • tdfx 4y ago
    I think you're shooting the messenger here. OP was explaining the incentives for the behavior we're seeing, not excusing it.
    • throwanem 4y ago
      Maybe so. It's easy to get your blood up when you're addressing flagrantly careless behavior that substantially helps make possible the systematization of the same kind of targeted, but back then still by necessity only interpersonal and mostly opportunistic, violence that was a daily feature of your life throughout most of its first couple decades. So, sure, the one comment to which you've directly responded here, I'll call that out of line on my part. Everything else I've said throughout these comments stands.
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