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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Cards on the table: for Google money I'd do it too. If they want to enshittify their product until the competition has a fighting chance, who am I to stop them? Sure, it's an annoying and anticonsumer thing to do. But making a "free" product's bad qualities harder to circumvent isn't the ethical hill I'm going to die on.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (5 children)

For Google money I'd do it too...but I wouldn't do a very good job of it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yeah, I don't really get the argument here. As much as it sucks, it's not nearly as morally reprehensible as something like weapons. If you don't do it someone else will. It's not something a handful of devs are gonna make a difference in by boycotting and it isn't worth being fired over or not accepting a job over.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Advertising is absolutely morally reprehensible. It is propaganda that exists only to manipulate people into buying shit they didn't want or need. And it turns out that mindless consumerism is destroying society and our planet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You can't make better people and better cattle at the same time.

Imagine you were a billionaire. Which do you want?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I never said it wasn't morally reprehensible. Only that it's less morally reprehensible than something like making weapons.

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