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There is always going to be financial incentives to do User-Hostile stuff. Collecting user data to market to them and increase LTV is a no brainer for most prod

There is always going to be financial incentives to do User-Hostile stuff. Collecting user data to market to them and increase LTV is a no brainer for most product / general managers. There is a market solution to counter the financial motive of making User-Hostile software: Make the lack User-Hostile software a MARKETED FEATURE. - It should be promoted on product description details - Hardware review sites should actively make note of it - There should be curated sites / lists that feature products that are not User-Hostile - There should be a certification body that has a logo that gets plastered on devices / software that has been certified. Don't blame the guys whose design products to maximize consumer LTV - they are just doing their jobs.

alexhsamuel 4y ago
> Don't blame the guys whose design products to maximize consumer LTV - they are just doing their jobs. Mmmmm... how about oil and tobacco CEOs? How about patent trolls? How about actual professional criminals? Where do you draw the line?
- musicale 4y ago
  If ACM actually enforced its code of ethics[1], employees of privacy-violating companies would be banned from ACM conferences and journals. ACM doesn't seem to care though – they just want membership dues. [1] https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics
yunwal 4y ago
> they are just doing their jobs Probably my least favorite phrase. If you help make a bad thing knowingly, you have done a bad thing. Period. There’s no 1 evil dictator CEO that deserves all the blame, devs have agency, product managers have agency.