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If you want to find a group of people who will be consistently sympathetic of ethically dubious business and UI decisions, look no further than Hacker News.

I come to the comments looking for outrage, a sign that ultimately decency is the dominant force in our industry. In our world. No one lets me down better than HN

(*sorry I can't reply, I'm taking a luxurious bubble bath in your downvotes)

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Of course they put themselves in the shoes of the guys holding your privacy in contempt as, in the best of case, a measure to save at worst a few days of engineering hours.

They imagine that lowering the bar for privacy benefits them and their future imaginary startups, or may save them from uninteresting work at their current jobs.

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