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Comment by fartcannon | Hacker News Reader

How about publicly shaming the developers who wrote the code to make this possible?

Seems only fair, since they voluntarily shared ours private details.

Apparently some of them see no reason that they should feel shame. See comments on this article from yesterday. A person who used to work at Google in the Adwords group comments extensively on the thread. It was eye opening for me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32549604

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32552749

Edit: Note, they have edited some of their comments like their previous response to a comment, "Could it be that you can not understand the harms because you actively took part in creating this reality? I know it's condescending, but it's also human nature. Nobody likes to acknowledge he is a part of something harmful, and to deal with this cognitive dissonance we can put on very powerful blinders." where the previous response was "lol (and something the the effect of, no I don't care)".

Hypocritically people bitch about intrusive data collection from governments and yet simultaneously give away the same data, and encourage others to do the same, and more to private companies knowing that data will be weaponized against them. As such it’s almost impossible to take any opinion promoting commercial violations of privacy seriously.

Yeah, wow. That guy is the definition of that Uptain Sinclaire quote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

How about shaming the advertisers who use these services? They're the ones who are paying for these systems to be developed.

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