Their entire business model is corrupt and a significant driver of the degraded state of our society, civility, and politics.
What is the core of their business? Maximizing and totalizing surveillance, in service whoever has money in hand, including those interested not (just) in selling you shit, but steering your behavior, mood, and beliefs.
There's a reason for the constant drumbeat of stories about whistleblowing, lawsuits, suppressed research, literal criminality, and contempt for the wellbeing of their "users."
It's not "polite" to talk about this on HN, but if you work there or do business with them, you better be at peace with your moral complicity.
There's also a reason they pay so well. It's to make people hold their noses.
What is the core of their business? Maximizing and totalizing surveillance, in service whoever has money in hand, including those interested not (just) in selling you shit, but steering your behavior, mood, and beliefs.
There's a reason for the constant drumbeat of stories about whistleblowing, lawsuits, suppressed research, literal criminality, and contempt for the wellbeing of their "users."
It's not "polite" to talk about this on HN, but if you work there or do business with them, you better be at peace with your moral complicity.
There's also a reason they pay so well. It's to make people hold their noses.