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And to think an entire chain of individuals were involved in designing and approving those popups at Microsoft, and not once did anyone bother to ask:

“Maybe we should fuck off?”

If you happen to be responsible and reading this the answer is yes.

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Microsoft needs to learn the meaning of consent. They're the software equivalent of a creepy guy in a bar offering "back massages" (i.e. Bing) to every girl he talks to.

"Would you like a back massage baby?" (Not now / Ask again in one week)

The guy being thrown out of the window meme after questioning the rest of the committee is actually a documentary.

It's not really an entire chain. Only a small handful of big bosses (maybe only one) can really be held responsible. Everyone else basically gets told "if you don't go along with this, we'll fire you and get someone else to".

Is it possible that the team responsible for this isn't even in the US, so that maybe their position with their job isn't as tolerant of the coders doing anything but banging code?

Because people feel so angry with malware authors and scammers it's hard to accept that those people may themselves be under duress. In some places kids get invited to a "dream tech job" interview only to find the door locked behind them and a list of 100 computers to infect each day if they want food.

Not saying M$ do that, but given their ethics track record and the harm their substandard cruft wreaks, I'd only be mildly surprised to find out otherwise.

are you telling me that Microsoft would kidnap kids to code MS Windows, their core offering, and then threaten them if they don't deliver?

or any of their other, billion-dollar-tier revenue generating offerings, like Azure, or Active Directory, or MSSQL, or Xbox, etc.?

do you have any idea how the FAANGM (MANGA?) world works?

I am sorry for confusing you with humour.

How else were they gonna keep their job? /s

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