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▲ kentm an hour ago

How you try to make money off an invention may be perfectly reasonable, or it may be perfectly unreasonable. The "how" matters here.

▲tonymet 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

nearly every "how" is going to trigger some haters.

▲preg_match 4 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yes but they’re clearly not all equal. Not everyone is a “hater” for thinking that basically installing malware to make money is bad.

There are legitimate, ethical ways to make money, and then not so ethical ones. It seems for tech companies, they often can’t find the ethical ways or they simply don’t produce enough money, and so they feel forced to act unethically.

The only reason they get away with it is… well everyone is doing it. It’s a culture problem, and it’s viral to the entire tech economy. Nobody cares about being scummy, doing things behind users backs, invading their privacy, employing dark patterns, or even leaking highly sensitive data.