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[–] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

Or you use confirmation bias to tell yourself it's an innocuous use case that won't hurt anyone.

Or you use a bandwagon argument like "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we" or "everybody else is doing it so it doesn't make much difference if we do too"

Or you use a library for ads such as the google-ads-api npm package, without checking it, so you don't realise how much data it's collecting on your users...

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Or even worse, “if we don’t it, someone else will anyway”

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    The Peter Thiel Paradox (also the name of my new wave band) "It's inevitable/you're only fighting progress, and any regulations will turn it into an authoritarian nightmare. Which is what it's turning into anyway because it's simply inevitable. So stop trying to resist by forcing regulations on this inevitable authoritarian nightmare that we had no way of stopping."

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