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Orlando Brown

Such a great read guys!!!

I find these practices to come from humble beginnings at first, but then they lead on to more creepy practices as the need for more data/insights are required to drive more revenue.

I'm in meetings all the time as a dev on how to drive more engagement, which in turn is what drives conversion.

We want to know as much as possible about our customers to better match and recommend things they care about.

But there is a fundamental line one as developers we should not cross. When we develop systems that circumvents consent.

I'm not surprised we haven't made a developers oath process that we all subscribe and unionize too. Or something more simple like the Agile manifesto, where we all sign into and ensure that any agent or company must acknowledge that we are ethical Devs.

People power will always win.