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And google is entitled to infer that you're using it and serve you different content, or none at all.
by recursive 2y ago
And google is entitled to infer that you're using it and serve you different content, or none at all.
- int_19h 2y agoAnd I'm entitled to publicly shame software engineers who implement this kind of stuff for Google.
- recursive 2y agoBest of luck. I actually hope it works, but I'm not optimistic.
- int_19h 2y agoI'm pretty sure it won't, given that it hasn't worked so far for much worse stuff (like people implementing the panopticon at Palantir).
- ryandrake 2y agoIt's not possible to shame a group of people who can't even agree on baseline ethical issues around their profession. For every engineer who refuses to work on guided missiles or the Torment Nexus and would feel shame to do so, there's another engineer who would find it an interesting technical problem.
- int_19h 2y agoWhen such things work, it's not because people who do it feel ashamed, it's because the society ostracizes them so much that it becomes actually inconvenient to function in it. Oh, and it is an interesting problem. In the abstract.
- jshen 2y agoYou should instead support businesses with a business model that fits your philosophy and try to persuade other users to do the same. If you aren't helping make other business models successful, you aren't really achieving anything.