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Agree with the sentiment, disagree with the assignment of blame. Blame legal, marketing, design, or PM. No web dev decided this was how they wanted to spend a d

Agree with the sentiment, disagree with the assignment of blame. Blame legal, marketing, design, or PM. No web dev decided this was how they wanted to spend a day.

ryandrake 3y ago
To be fair, the web developers are the ones actually typing in the code and deploying it. They must share at least partial blame. This whole "Don't blame me! Boss told me to do it" attitude is rampant in software.
- thot_experiment 3y ago
  Big agree with this sentiment, personal responsibility/dev mutiny/collective action could go a long way toward making the world less garbage.
  - kfrzcode 3y ago
    yes individualism is the answer; collectivism is also the solution, everyone should do what they think is the morally correct thing and the whole garbage pile will suddenly go away, nobody will starve and Great Leaders will be no more. This has always worked in the past. Leadership be damned! I am important and smart enough to do the right thing!
- rocketbop 3y ago
  I also agree with you. And the legal or marketing team that asked for it all have bosses too asking them for certain things.
- pessimizer 3y ago
  Pretty easy to say, but if someone is going to quit their job because they think the cookie banner they've been ordered to program will annoy people, they're either absurdly privileged or comically stupid.
  - rkagerer 3y ago
    I would never work someplace that promoted hostility to their users. I am neither privileged or stupid.
    - mtrower 3y ago
      It sounds like you're at least privileged in the sense that you have the apparent option. For a lot of people it's a serious deal to pursue alternate employment, especially if the conditions they are seeking to avoid are a common practice in the industry.
- dieselgate 3y ago
  Don’t hate the player hate the game
coldpie 3y ago
I don't mean the individual developers. I mean the industry. Y'all need to spin up a working group or something and figure it out. This is getting completely insane.

Agree with the sentiment, disagree with the assignment of blame. Blame legal, marketing, design, or PM. No web dev decided this was how they wanted to spend a day.

ryandrake 3y ago

To be fair, the web developers are the ones actually typing in the code and deploying it. They must share at least partial blame. This whole "Don't blame me! Boss told me to do it" attitude is rampant in software.

thot_experiment 3y ago
Big agree with this sentiment, personal responsibility/dev mutiny/collective action could go a long way toward making the world less garbage.
- kfrzcode 3y ago
  yes individualism is the answer; collectivism is also the solution, everyone should do what they think is the morally correct thing and the whole garbage pile will suddenly go away, nobody will starve and Great Leaders will be no more. This has always worked in the past. Leadership be damned! I am important and smart enough to do the right thing!
rocketbop 3y ago
I also agree with you. And the legal or marketing team that asked for it all have bosses too asking them for certain things.
pessimizer 3y ago
Pretty easy to say, but if someone is going to quit their job because they think the cookie banner they've been ordered to program will annoy people, they're either absurdly privileged or comically stupid.
- rkagerer 3y ago
  I would never work someplace that promoted hostility to their users. I am neither privileged or stupid.
  - mtrower 3y ago
    It sounds like you're at least privileged in the sense that you have the apparent option. For a lot of people it's a serious deal to pursue alternate employment, especially if the conditions they are seeking to avoid are a common practice in the industry.
dieselgate 3y ago
Don’t hate the player hate the game

coldpie 3y ago

I don't mean the individual developers. I mean the industry. Y'all need to spin up a working group or something and figure it out. This is getting completely insane.