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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What do you think about this? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by SnowC0de@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I found that on r/webdev. What do you think about this opinion?

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 years ago

Most of the people who work in webdev are getting paid to figure out how to track users and provide targeted ads better than their competitors. Doesn't surprise me that they'd be hostile to the privacy concerns, because they'd be out of jobs otherwise.

Most programming communities on reddit are really pro-corporate and spying, /r/programming is obsessed with microsoft for example and will defend their OS-wired in keylogging / telemetry all day long.