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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 19:13:45 JST Aral Balkan

   “Learn privacy” a new course from… surveillance capitalist Google.

   These people have no shame.

   https://web.dev/learn/privacy/

   #google #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #webDotDev #web #dev #privacy #SiliconValley #BigTech #privacyWashing

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 19:56:36 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Simone S

     @m2m It would seem most folks doing bad things are genuinely convinced they’re doing good things, especially when it pays the mortgage.

   • Simone S (m2m@sonomu.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 19:56:37 JST Simone S

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     @aral I've always suspected that most people working for them are genuinely convinced they're doing good things.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 20:17:20 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Tobias Schmidl

     @schtobia War is peace and all that.

   • Tobias Schmidl (schtobia@augsburg.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 20:17:21 JST Tobias Schmidl

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     @aral funny thing is, the very same site is using Google Analytics without asking for the users consent, which I thought is illegal under GPDR.
     But what do I know. 🤷🏻♂️

   • Chris Ferdinandi ⚓️ (cferdinandi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 21:51:54 JST Chris Ferdinandi ⚓️

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     @aral right!? Absurd

   • Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 22:02:15 JST Chris Wiegman

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     @aral “Learn how to conveniently ignore the privacy of yours and others with fancy words" would make a great tagline.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 22:22:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Oliwier Jaszczyszyn

     @slavistapl The site is by Google. So I guess the answer is everyone should expect it.

   • Oliwier Jaszczyszyn (slavistapl@500plus.slavistapl.eu.org)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 22:22:54 JST Oliwier Jaszczyszyn

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     @aral well… who would expect that on a course teaching “privacy” you would be welcomed with Google spyware?

     It’s no different on the Polish internet, there’s an example of a GDPR advisory company allowing Google to spy on you. (They got sued over it.)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 02:08:35 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Alistair (moved server)

     @accudio Yes, congratulations to Stuart. He did do a very good job. I might hit him up to write a piece on environmentalism for shell.com next.

   • Alistair (moved server) (accudio@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 02:08:36 JST Alistair (moved server)

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     @aral It's a really good course, I think Stuart Langridge did a good job with it. It is indeed very unfortunate that it's for Google and web.dev though...