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"Many workers immediately revolted. In online comments, they blasted the tracking as a privacy violation, ..."

“How do we opt out?” - Meta employee

Poetic justice, or "dogfooding"

I wonder what the thought process is? "I only work here because I like to violate everyone else's privacy. Mine has to be respected"?

It's not like Meta/Facebook ever had moral concerns about privacy violations or surveillance (or many other things).

Come on, we all know why they work there...

"I only work here because I like money and Meta pays more than $(INSERT_OTHER_FAANG)"

I've heard the rebuttal that it's not necessarily that, but that getting jobs if they quit the one they already have is hard. So they stay.

Check out this Ask HN thread for example about how bad the Job Market is -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988268

I think the broader issue is that Meta has been evil for pretty much all of history so you can’t rationalize remaining employed there as simply a factor of the current job market (ofc this primarily applies to more tenured Meta employees)

Fair point.

Most Meta employees do not support invasive features without opt outs in their products. Some try to argue against it. But ultimately there is only person who gets to decide.

You might as well blame the entire US population for certain problematic actions of the president.

Getting another job when you have Meta on your CV is a lot easier than moving to another country.

Being a USA citizen is often not a choice. Being a Metaslop employee is a choice.

That feels reductive. It's actionable to get OCI, renounce US citizenship, and become Indian after a decade. It's just not very practical for most people. I know many people who don't work their dream job, but switching to a favorable company isn't currently practical for them.

> You might as well blame the entire US population for certain problematic actions of the president

You actively decide to work for Meta which has been known to dishonestly violate privacy since basically day one [1]. Most US citizens were passively born as one. It’s also much easier to leave a company than to move out of USA.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zu...

> You might as well blame the entire US population for certain problematic actions of the president.

The equivalent would be blaming those who chose the current president. Which would be an entirely reasonable thing to do.

By that logic, you should blame the people that use meta’s products.

I DO make fun of people who use Instagram for "news".

The infamous "Nuremberg defense".

Meta employee chose to work there. Each day, they choose to keep working there. With Meta on their resume, they could find work pretty much anywhere else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

You can opt out by clicking through those 9 pages, each with a confusing form and buttons.

And on the next update we either just enable it again and make you go through the process again :)

...and at the end of the 9 pages you'll be added to the list of employes to let go next time layoff happen.

"What goes around comes around"

"You reap what you sow"

Karma (not the HN kind)

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