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I love the phrase I heard recently: “software developers don’t understand consent” It describes so much
by spencerflem 10mo ago
I love the phrase I heard recently: “software developers don’t understand consent”
It describes so much
- baal80spam 10mo agoSales people don't understand it, not software developers.
- hulitu 10mo agoSee Windows and Android. Blaming only the sales people is ... not helping.
- bigyabai 10mo agoBlaming the sales people is correct. Technically-minded people likely do know better, they just lack the authority to override the top-down administrative decisions.
- spencerflem 10mo agoI’d like to think that but the AI ppl on this website are something else
- ghostly_s 10mo agoThese problems are rampant enough in the OSS world too, never heard of an open source salesman.
- paradox460 10mo agoRms?
- Blackthorn 10mo agoWhich one invented "ask me again later" dialogs?
- mikestew 10mo agoSales people, and that shit rolled downhill to the devs. The days of devs writing dialog text in something like Windows are long gone.
- heelix 10mo agoWhat is the difference between software and car sales? The car sales knows when they are lying.
- canyp 10mo agoIf you are a software developer and you implemented that without question, you suck.
- kotaKat 10mo ago[flagged]
- kgklxksnrb 10mo agoWhen I, as a developer, was told (essentially forced if I wanted to keep my job) to implement dark patterns, I did it knowing I made the world worse. I was fully aware of it, and my coworkers as well, we discussed it openly, and I imagine everyone implementing such tech are. Of course I and other could claim plausible deniability, ”we didn’t understand consent”.
- Telaneo 10mo agoI hope one day there will be pushback on this from people like you, but when your boss has an economical stranglehold over you, not to mention the old adage 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it', it's understandable why we're in this situation.
- ThrowawayR2 10mo agoSoftware developers understand consent well but they understand dollar signs even better.