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minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoYeah? Still not seeing a reason not to use it today. Do you have any specific criticisms?
minus-squareivn@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoBreach of trust and owned by a for profit company.
minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days ago Breach of trust By a different company. Owners changed in 2017. owned by a for profit company Which makes a privacy-oriented search engine. Seems like they have a pretty good track record.
minus-squareivn@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoAnd they started using ghostery to show their own ads in 2018. Their search engine was discontinued in 2020.
minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days ago And they started using ghostery to show their own ads in 2018. And they stopped after it was criticised. Do you just not use any product that has ever been bad for any amount of time?
minus-squareivn@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoNo need to get defensive. I do use bad products, but it’s important to try to find the least bad and avoid rewarding bad actors.
minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days ago No need to get defensive Who’s defensive…? I do use bad products Umm… Good for you! (?) Not sure why you decided to share that, though. but it’s important to try to find the least bad and avoid rewarding bad actors. I agree! How about rewarding a redemption arc, where a bad actor changes management and becomes a “good actor”? (that was the original question, btw)
minus-squareivn@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoWell that was a weird rhetorical question. Redemption arcs are for people, not for companies. And even them, how would I know they’ve become a good actor? It’s really hard to be sure that a software is not doing something bad. Trust in software should be really, really hard to acquire.
Check the Wikipedia page on it.
Yeah? Still not seeing a reason not to use it today. Do you have any specific criticisms?
Breach of trust and owned by a for profit company.
By a different company. Owners changed in 2017.
Which makes a privacy-oriented search engine. Seems like they have a pretty good track record.
And they started using ghostery to show their own ads in 2018.
Their search engine was discontinued in 2020.
And they stopped after it was criticised. Do you just not use any product that has ever been bad for any amount of time?
No need to get defensive. I do use bad products, but it’s important to try to find the least bad and avoid rewarding bad actors.
Who’s defensive…?
Umm… Good for you! (?) Not sure why you decided to share that, though.
I agree! How about rewarding a redemption arc, where a bad actor changes management and becomes a “good actor”? (that was the original question, btw)
Well that was a weird rhetorical question.
Redemption arcs are for people, not for companies. And even them, how would I know they’ve become a good actor? It’s really hard to be sure that a software is not doing something bad. Trust in software should be really, really hard to acquire.