Dear every programmer working on websites and browsers:

pandachronicle@ohai.social

@joby

db_geek@norden.social

@joby I do not want to chat with your creepy AI chat bot.

m@martinh.net

@joby Imagine the app version of this!

I DO NOT WANT TO SHARE MY PRECISE LOCATION AT ALL TIMES WITH YOUR 1436 PARTNERS

(continues at length)

ronaldb66@mastodon.social

@starsider @joby My thoughts as well.

theosoreass@ieji.de

@joby and i don't want to spin anything before i browse your shop

s4rkn@mastodon.nz

@joby i do agree but most of the time it's not the devs bro, it's marketing, project manager, top management.

nux@fosstodon.org

@joby Those would most likely not be programmer decisions, more like management/marketing.

swaldman@mendeddrum.org

@kakurady @joby The irony that every user-hostile thing that the Microsoft person in that article complained about 20 years ago is now something that Microsoft do themselves.

baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

@joby @Nicovel0 And having answered NO to all of that, don't bloody ask it again when I navigate to the next page.

oskard@mastodon.nu

@joby but do you want to ACCEPT ALL cookies or do you prefer to go into a menu and unselect 300 toggles?

joby@hachyderm.io

@oskard Or option Use a browser plugin that hides the prompt, but now a bunch of stuff doesn't work because we all hold the functionally-necessary cookies hostage behind that stupid prompt.

pa28@social.vivaldi.net

@joby @oskard I take this to mean "we really don't want your views so Fck all the way off" and oblige.

bolderbekah@mastodon.social

@joby not the programmers, sales and growth hackers forcing it on the rest of marketing and development 🫠

mensrea@freeradical.zone

@joby <cloudflare slides into the chat> hi! are you even human

neverbeaten@mas.to

@joby
I’d pay $5 to be able to mega-boost this post.

neverbeaten@mas.to

@dplattsf @joby
I’d be okay with a “remind me later” ONLY IF always paired with a “dismiss forever” option.

joby@hachyderm.io

@bolderbekah You're not wrong, but it ultimately takes two to tango. I feel like a lot of programmers just utterly divorce themselves from the consequences of their work. Honestly a lot of people in general do that, because unethical jobs often pay well.

Like I could probably double or triple my salary by getting a job at our local national labs or some defense contractor, but ... I like how working on my silly little university websites means the code I write will never kill anybody. That's like one of my number one job perks.

joby@hachyderm.io

@neverbeaten @dplattsf Right? I'd accept three options, as long as one of them is "leave me alone forever"

neverbeaten@mas.to

@joby
See also: “sign in with…”

I’ll sign in with my credentials unique to your site, not Google or Apple.

killyourfm@layer8.space

@joby You need this, it will help: https://justthebrowser.com

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Dear every programmer working on websites and browsers: