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Re:Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above sea... by z3c0 on Monday January 31, 2022 @11:21AM (#30149715)
I'm beginning to use "going public" as my indicator to stop using a product. My decade-old reddit account was recently deleted for this reason, as they were showing all the signs before they announced their intention to go public.

I'm really hoping DigitalOcean and Gitlab prove my theory wrong. You would think that private companies would be more prone to unethical practices.

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Re:Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above sea... by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Monday January 31, 2022 @11:32AM (#30149870)
You might be able to use it as an indicator when to stop working there too. Which sucks because public companies tend to pay nearly twice as much.
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Re:Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above sea... by z3c0 on Monday January 31, 2022 @12:00PM (#30150278)
I've had a mixed bag of results on this one, but as someone who works in data, the sudden crunch to bring a company's architecture into SOX compliance can certainly be stressful enough to warrant leaving.
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