• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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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.

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            2 days ago

            Redemption arcs are for people, not for companies

            So, how are you browsing the Internet?

            Can’t use Chromium (Google), can’t use Safari (Apple).

            Can’t use Mozilla after their “bad actor” behaviour with telemetry and Pocket integration (not to mention the fact that they’re literally on Google’s payroll). Can’t use Servo (originally made by Mozilla), can’t use Ladybird (main dev is a fascist).

            Are you posting this through telepathic transmission, or are you just a hypocrite?

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              2 days ago

              No, as I said I do use some bad software but I try to find the least worst.