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Do you really equate product growth with a positive impact on people..? Developers working for Facebook or Google are fully aware their employer pays their sala
by 9dev 4y ago
Do you really equate product growth with a positive impact on people..? Developers working for Facebook or Google are fully aware their employer pays their salary by selling other peoples data. There is no excuse other than immorality.
- charcircuit 4y agoYes, no one is forcing people to use Google's search product. People use it because it has a positive impact in helping them find things easier. >by selling other peoples data Neither of these companies sell user data. Both these companies take user privacy more seriously than almost every other company on Earth.
- alphabettsy 4y ago> Neither of these companies sell user data. Both these companies take user privacy more seriously than almost every other company on Earth. That depends on your idea of privacy. Collecting and retaining incredible amounts of data about people even without their consent isn’t my idea of respecting privacy.
- jimmydorry 4y agoYet GP said "selling data", not "collecting data". Google and Facebook collect hordes of data and sell access to insights of it, but not the underlying data itself as that data is far too valuable.
- 9dev 4y agoWe can play semantics all day, but both companies sell insights and slices of data to ad customers, while acting benevolent and community-focused to their users. The valuable hordes of data you mention have been collected without users actually understanding what or why this is happening. If you only care about getting a good pay from such a job, fine. But that just makes you immoral in my book.
- jimmydorry 4y agoExcept the claim was that Facebook and Google can't possibly be privacy conscious as they _SELL_ user data. Every part of that sentence was wrong, and you are trying to pretend otherwise.