alt Hacker News>For years, the internet advertising industry has been sucking up our data, including our location data
For years, people have been sharing everything they do, what they do, people they spent time with, where they live.
Advertisement industry just adds more info to complete your profile, what you buy, what you watch, what you speak online, etc.
People here complain that programmers aren’t engineers because real engineers can accidentally kill people and get sued if they mess an equation up. Instead of just breaking a build or something.
I think it’s more concerning that programmers seem to have no care or shame about designing systems that works against the users’ interests. Did you share something intimate in our chat? Well it’s not E2E, moron, we have that now. How could you be this stupid?
I can’t think of another profession (except pure value extraction types) which revels in exploiting people for not having the time or care to arrange their digital lives around the booby traps that nerds set for them.