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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
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"“We’re that skeezy toolbar company that your grandmother installs that she can’t get out and ... her computer doesn’t work anymore?"
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"Even though many of them thought the business model was despicable. Even though many of them felt fooled. "It’s complicated, OK?"
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Gill 'doesn’t consider himself in the adware business. He prefers to describe 50onRed as a company that keeps content free for users.'
On twitter.com ❤️ 1 Favorite 2016 Jun 2 Mood +1 🙂

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“What do you do when you discover your company is not what you think it is? Mental gymnastics.” buff.ly/1sPTBtC
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Gill "describes the company as one that prioritizes 'user’s choice.' 'It’s about users being free to control their browsing experience'"
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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 ❤️ 1 Favorite 2016 Jun 2 Mood -3 🙁

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“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 2016 Jun 2 Mood -4 🙁

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And so, because of thinking like this, an ecosystem of shit ad tech, malware, and bad actors was born.
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 2 Favorites 2016 Jun 2 Mood -5 🙁

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“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 ❤️ 1 Favorite 2016 Jun 2 Mood +2 🙂

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This story is made more crazy when you realize that there are 100s of companies w/ thousands of engineers in situations *exactly* like this.
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Slowly making the web a shittier place w/every single line of code they churn out; forgiving themselves for it b/c "the challenge".
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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 ❤️ 1 Favorite 2016 Jun 2 Mood +3 🙂

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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?
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Shit, just read this story ASAP backchannel.com/the-perks-are-great-just-dont-ask-us-what-we-do-d5abc6867103#.bc9nd8gcy
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1 Retweets ❤️ 1 Favorite 2016 Jun 2 Mood -4 🙁

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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."
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And thus the cycle of zero consequences continues.
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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 2016 Jun 2 Mood -1 🙁

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This article is freaking amazing and juliana_f_reyes deserves a ton of applause for it. Well done.
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 1 Favorite 2016 Jun 2 Mood +6 🙂

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