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Comment by ryandrake | Hacker News Reader

To be fair, the web developers are the ones actually typing in the code and deploying it. They must share at least partial blame.

This whole "Don't blame me! Boss told me to do it" attitude is rampant in software.

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Pretty easy to say, but if someone is going to quit their job because they think the cookie banner they've been ordered to program will annoy people, they're either absurdly privileged or comically stupid.

I would never work someplace that promoted hostility to their users. I am neither privileged or stupid.

It sounds like you're at least privileged in the sense that you have the apparent option. For a lot of people it's a serious deal to pursue alternate employment, especially if the conditions they are seeking to avoid are a common practice in the industry.

Big agree with this sentiment, personal responsibility/dev mutiny/collective action could go a long way toward making the world less garbage.

yes individualism is the answer; collectivism is also the solution, everyone should do what they think is the morally correct thing and the whole garbage pile will suddenly go away, nobody will starve and Great Leaders will be no more. This has always worked in the past. Leadership be damned! I am important and smart enough to do the right thing!

I also agree with you. And the legal or marketing team that asked for it all have bosses too asking them for certain things.

Don’t hate the player hate the game

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