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   by fdeage 6y ago

   Very interesting, thanks for taking the time. "Trying to not be evil just doesn't scale so easily": your remark reminded me of this quote from Leopold Kohr: "There seems to be only one cause behind all forms of social mi
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   by fdeage 6y ago

   Maybe I should have been more precise in my post, but I was interested in people's subjective definition here, not in providing a definition myself (not feeling qualified for that).
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   by fdeage 6y ago

   I hear your point, but I was interested precisely in Google/FB employees' feelings about their own company, not in objectively defining "evil". Not sure I see the point you want to make with COVID-19 though... You mean t
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   by fdeage 6y ago

   I agree, I doubt there can be much difference between Fortune 500's company A and Fortune 500's company B, in the long run. I thought, though, that "being evil" (whatever that means) came from some kind of instinct of su
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   by fdeage 6y ago

   Thanks for your reply, and sorry to hear you feel trapped in your company right now. Do you feel like this feeling is common among Googlers? Also, I'd be very interested in hearing what you think of the reasons from Googlers defending
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   by fdeage 6y ago

   I see. I have to say I'm slightly surprised, because I thought that top SWE like the ones working at "elite" companies such as Google were enjoying more freedom when choosing their employer. Seems like it's hard for ever
7. 187.▲
   by fdeage 6y ago

   Reminds me of this: "Of the 186 Facebook employees polled, only 21 percent said they would entrust their data to the social media giant." ( https://decrypt.co/12708/most-facebook-employees-dont-trust-... )
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   by fdeage 6y ago

   Do you think they might have an interest in spreading them, besides user engagement? Also, I'm not implying anything, but what makes you think they are not trying to fight this spread?
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   by fdeage 6y ago

   Actually the funny thing is I wasn't thinking about COVID-19 at all... (maybe I should get out of my cave sometimes)
10. 190.▲
    by fdeage 6y ago

    I get your point, but what prevents us from considering "evilness" an emergent property of organizations...?
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    by fdeage 6y ago

    So you would consider that a user has the same responsibility as a FB/Google developer in using these services?
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    by fdeage 6y ago

    You're right. My question was to be taken from a privacy standpoint, and I was referring to some critics today (both inside and outside the tech community) of how Google and FB specifically handle privacy.
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    Ask HN: As a Facebook or Google engineer, do you consider your company evil?

    124 points by fdeage 6y ago|127 comments
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    by fdeage 6y ago

    Funny you mention a telecom provider, because the same happened to me in France: I wanted to switch plan on the same operator, but couldn't because I was redirected to the login screen again and again.
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    by fdeage 6y ago

    Nice one. God, it makes me so sad that websites can get away with this behavior now. What website was it? Shiny new startup?
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    Ask HN: What is the worst login experience you had on the Web?

    2 points by fdeage 6y ago|6 comments
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    by fdeage 7y ago

    By the way, a very interesting article on the same subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6186730
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    Ask HN: Do you feel like digital literacy is falling among kids?

    2 points by fdeage 7y ago|1 comments
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    by fdeage 7y ago

    I'm not claiming anything about E2EE in WhatsApp. In fact, the whole post is about trying to know whether they implement it properly.
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    by fdeage 7y ago

    That's interesting. Could you develop on this conflict? For some reason it reminds me of the famous Moxie article: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving Is it the same idea?
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    by fdeage 7y ago

    Agreed, but I meant "properly implemented E2EE".
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    by fdeage 7y ago

    1. OK... 2. You are restating my friend's argument, but the idea of E2E is precisely to remove trust from the equation. If applied properly, there's nothing the company controlling the server can do. 3. Most probably, but that&#x2
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    by fdeage 7y ago

    I know there are other problems and unknowns when using WhatsApp on an iPhone. I do not see how this is related to E2E though... Does it mean that any try to secure communications on the iOS platform is irrelevant in your opinion?
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    by fdeage 7y ago

    Yes, but he also claimed to be willing to implement E2E encryption in Messenger (the whole "the future is private" narrative that he tried to push last year). Plus, merging 4 messaging app of this size probably takes some time. Th
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    by fdeage 7y ago

    (By the way, one day I sent a picture of a dress to my sister-in-law on WhatsApp. She told me that Instagram sent her an ad 5 minutes later, with the exact same dress . It was so unlikely to be random that I checked right away to see if pi
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    Ask HN: How do we know that WhatsApp doesn't spy on messages?

    6 points by fdeage 7y ago|17 comments
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    by fdeage 8y ago

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