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2026-08-08 09:06 UTC
But these numbers swelled as Big Tech companies saturated their markets and switched from growing by making products people like, to locking in their users and then extracting more value from their technological prisoners:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-raghavan
It was the era when (in the words of Facebook's Jeff Hammerbacher) "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads":
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/06/12/click/
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-08 09:06
For organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the growing cohort of hackers who wanted to hack for good was great news. Our staff technologist group swelled from a couple of overworked computer scientists helping lawyers and activists with campaigns to a series of increasingly ambitious software projects, from Privacy Badger (a tracking-blocker that every web user needs): https://privacybadger.org/ 4/