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[ PRIVACY Forum ] When techies don't care
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Wed May 22 13:57:53 2024
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 10:49:12 -0700
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When techies don't care
All too often I see techies (and clearly I qualify as a techie) who
don't seem to give a damn about non-techie users of these systems. So
long as there's some techie workaround for privacy-invasive systems ("oh
yeah, do this to the URL -- run this extension, do this and that") they
don't seem to be concerned at all that the vast majority of people just
use systems in their default states and are burned every day by these
systems. I've seen this attitude by so many techies my entire career,
and if anything it's worse now. This is, by the way, where the term
"lusers" for users (commonly heard in the tech community) came from. I
find this attitude by this segment of techies to be disgraceful. -L
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