• Steve@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    When I worked in agencies you could pick the suits that had lost touch with reality by how much they seemed to believe that targeted ads are useful enough to be some kind of public service. Now google use the same rhetoric to justify user tracking

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      1 year ago

      on the engineering side, I keep having to turn down executive feature requests with “this is functionally indistinguishable from malware”