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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by recursive on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @01:25PM (#42701534)
And google is entitled to infer that you're using it and serve you different content, or none at all.
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by int_19h on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:18PM (#42702338)
And I'm entitled to publicly shame software engineers who implement this kind of stuff for Google.
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by recursive on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:32PM (#42702537)
Best of luck. I actually hope it works, but I'm not optimistic.
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by int_19h on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @03:00PM (#42702980)
I'm pretty sure it won't, given that it hasn't worked so far for much worse stuff (like people implementing the panopticon at Palantir).
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by ryandrake on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:37PM (#42704233)
It's not possible to shame a group of people who can't even agree on baseline ethical issues around their profession. For every engineer who refuses to work on guided missiles or the Torment Nexus and would feel shame to do so, there's another engineer who would find it an interesting technical problem.
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by int_19h on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:15PM (#42706545)
When such things work, it's not because people who do it feel ashamed, it's because the society ostracizes them so much that it becomes actually inconvenient to function in it.

Oh, and it is an interesting problem. In the abstract.

Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by jshen on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:32PM (#42704864)
You should instead support businesses with a business model that fits your philosophy and try to persuade other users to do the same. If you aren't helping make other business models successful, you aren't really achieving anything.