Chronotope’s avatarChronotope’s Twitter Archive—№ 62,569

  1. Haha, holy shit this longform story about a Philly tech startup it turns out is in the business of making malware - backchannel.com/the-perks-are-great-just-dont-ask-us-what-we-do-d5abc6867103#.y2gtj0wln
    OpenGraph image for backchannel.com/the-perks-are-great-just-dont-ask-us-what-we-do-d5abc6867103#.y2gtj0wln
    On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar ♻️ 6 Retweets ❤️ 6 Favorites Mood -1 🙁
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      "“We’re that skeezy toolbar company that your grandmother installs that she can’t get out and ... her computer doesn’t work anymore?"
      Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar Mood 0
      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
        "Even though many of them thought the business model was despicable. Even though many of them felt fooled. "It’s complicated, OK?"
        Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar Mood 0
        1. …in reply to @Chronotope
          Gill 'doesn’t consider himself in the adware business. He prefers to describe 50onRed as a company that keeps content free for users.'
          Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar ❤️ 1 Favorite Mood +1 🙂
          1. …in reply to @Chronotope
            “What do you do when you discover your company is not what you think it is? Mental gymnastics.” buff.ly/1sPTBtC
            Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar Mood 0
            1. …in reply to @Chronotope
              Gill "describes the company as one that prioritizes 'user’s choice.' 'It’s about users being free to control their browsing experience'"
              Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar Mood +1 🙂
              1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                This is it, this is the story of how the scammy shitty internet gets made and how the people who make it justify it to themselves.
                Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar ❤️ 1 Favorite Mood -3 🙁
                1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                  “I think what they did is pretty despicable but at the end of the day, I didn’t give a fuck ... I was engrossed by the technical problems."
                  Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar Mood -4 🙁
                  1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                    And so, because of thinking like this, an ecosystem of shit ad tech, malware, and bad actors was born.
                    Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar ❤️ 2 Favorites Mood -5 🙁
                    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                      “All just normal tech people who want to further their careers” This is what happens when we don't take responsibility for what we make.
                      Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar ❤️ 1 Favorite Mood +2 🙂
                      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                        This story is made more crazy when you realize that there are 100s of companies w/ thousands of engineers in situations *exactly* like this.
                        Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar Mood 0
                        1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                          Slowly making the web a shittier place w/every single line of code they churn out; forgiving themselves for it b/c "the challenge".
                          Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar Mood 0
                          1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                            This is why dev-culture can be godawful. The whole thing resolves around "challenging == good" but "easy == bad"... except for w/morality.
                            Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar ❤️ 1 Favorite Mood +3 🙂
                            1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                              I still can't get over "keeps content free for users." How the hell can you even pretend that's what this malicious adware crap does?
                              Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar Mood -7 🙁
                              1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                                Shit, just read this story ASAP backchannel.com/the-perks-are-great-just-dont-ask-us-what-we-do-d5abc6867103#.bc9nd8gcy
                                OpenGraph image for backchannel.com/the-perks-are-great-just-dont-ask-us-what-we-do-d5abc6867103#.bc9nd8gcy
                                Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar ♻️ 1 Retweets ❤️ 1 Favorite Mood -4 🙁
                                1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                                  And then to top it off, a bunch of high level people who made malicious ad tech then "joined the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon."
                                  Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar ❤️ 2 Favorites Mood +4 🙂
                                  1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                                    And thus the cycle of zero consequences continues.
                                    Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar ❤️ 2 Favorites Mood 0
                                    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                                      This also gets to the core of why a situation like Gawker vs Thiel is so dangerous. Comes out of a culture where no 1 ever challenges ethics
                                      Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar Mood -1 🙁
                                      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                                        This article is freaking amazing and juliana_f_reyes deserves a ton of applause for it. Well done.
                                        Permalink On twitter.com Twitter logo Chronotope’s avatar ❤️ 1 Favorite Mood +6 🙂

Search tweets' text