Yes, and that's why I think that the majority of people who work for companies like Google/Alphabet and Facebook/Meta are morally/ethically compromised.
Either that or willfully ignorant.
Like how the majority of the adtech industry probably have the mindset of used-car salespeople.
When companies trying to run unwanted code inside my web browsers are attempting to hide what they're doing by (among other things) using internet domains to serve that crap hiding behind anonymous registrations/registrars, they can all DIAF for all I care.
you're wrong, there's lots of awesome people in the bay area tech, but there's also some bad eggs, but that's always always always a trickle down problem from rabid or deranged management.
Choosing to become part of a corrupt organization makes you an accessory and facilitator of their corrupt behaviour.
Human-beings seem to have an almost limitless ability to rationalize anything, especially their own behaviour. And I'm sure that the people who are part of corrupt organizations have created many of them.
But the fact remains that if all those people left those organizations the corrupt behaviour would cease. QED.
You're examining it in a cartoonish way. Developers don't develop dark patterns, in fact most of the time there's no indication that anything awry could be happening, then it gets changed on them after the fact. Most people are like you and me, trying to put food on the table, not cogs in some evil master plan.
But I'll relent that there is some culpability in the sense that if you join a company known for shady wheelings and dealings, that is indeed on you, the individual.
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u/PrivacyIsDemocracy 2d ago
Yes, and that's why I think that the majority of people who work for companies like Google/Alphabet and Facebook/Meta are morally/ethically compromised.
Either that or willfully ignorant.
Like how the majority of the adtech industry probably have the mindset of used-car salespeople.
When companies trying to run unwanted code inside my web browsers are attempting to hide what they're doing by (among other things) using internet domains to serve that crap hiding behind anonymous registrations/registrars, they can all DIAF for all I care.