And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.
The community feedback is… interesting to say the least.
And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.
The community feedback is… interesting to say the least.
I agree. I’m an engineer and have left companies for doing things I think are unethical. I understand its not always black and white, but at the end of the day, if you’re doing something bad and you know its bad, “just doing my job” does not mean you’re not complicit and at least partially responsible.
Especially if you work at a place like Google - its not like the only choices are either implementing this or starving. There are plenty of employment opportunities out there for people at the top of the industry that don’t involve making the world a worse place for everyone to live in.
There’s a decent chunk of google workers who rely on H1B visas, so that’s another thing that can remove some agency. I think that the level of coercion and control H1B visas give companies over their workers allow them to do even crazier shit. Part of how Twitter was able to retain some good engineers despite… everything.
I don’t know whether that actually applies in this case. But it’s not just money tethering people to their jobs.