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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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Software engineers have ethics classes, I'd imagine this would fall highly under unethical, just under building software for the military which google employees have protested in the past.
We do?
It was required for my degree, I'm sure it is required at more than just my university lol
Sure, its not taught everywhere, it is still something discussed among peers and taught at some institutions. Otherwise, you wouldn't be seeing engineers doing walkouts and protesting companies decisions.
Not my university. Outside of the engineering classes and prequisites for engineering classes, we only had to take rhetoric and a foreign language.
That's disappointing to hear. Talked about ethics throughout my courses and one was half the class. Hopefully more professors and instructions sprinkle it in there at least.
Losing your ad blocker on chrome is "just under" software designed to kill people? Lol really? Oh the oppression
Sure it won't kill people like programming drones, but it is still unethical and would affect ~5 billion people negatively.
Right, but you said "just under". There's a preeetty fuckin wide gap between blocking ad blockers and dropping bombs guy.
I'm not saying concerns aren't valid, I just took your comment to be calling it almost comparable to military software.
"..., it's just under..." means the same thing, but I think you mean "it's just under" as in "although, it's under" rather than "just" being a measurement?
Yeah not intending it as a measurement; this comes to mind in situations like this