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Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome - The Verge
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this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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Somewhere there is a designer and or an engineer that was forced to make that stupid thing and they hated every minute of it.
Off topic but I love that people still remember Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
Tad Ghostal.
Nah, Microsoft devs are there for the money, not the passion, just like all the other big tech companies. They got paid, so they don’t care.
I mean, I'm a dev at a big company, and I would definitely feel gross about implementing this.
I'd still do it, cause I gotta pay my bills somehow, but I definitely wouldn't enjoy it.
Fair enough. I worked at Facebook, Google, then LinkedIn, so I guess all the passion got drained from me until I quit and started working on my own product.
(LinkedIn was actually pretty good. I was working on an internal tool though.)
Honestly, fair point to you as well. I've been lucky enough to work at a company that does at least try to care about things. I imagine if these soul-sucking tasks were an everyday thing, I'd probably tone down the ol' moral compass a bit just to get through.
That's pretty likely, but there are plenty of crappy developers who are proud working on stuff that makes peoples' lives shittier.