• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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      3 days ago

      Yeah? Still not seeing a reason not to use it today. Do you have any specific criticisms?

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          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.

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            3 days ago

            And they started using ghostery to show their own ads in 2018.

            Their search engine was discontinued in 2020.

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              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?

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                3 days ago

                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.

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                  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)

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                    2 days ago

                    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.