[DanielBMarkham]

Apologies for digressing, but this is an important point.

Instead of the facile happytalk "Don't Be Evil", a much better slogan might be "Be as evil as you want, just don't hide anything from me and let's have an open and honest relationship"

Companies keep using the average user's technology ignorance against them. That was kinda cool and probably acceptable when you were the smart kid making a few dollars here or there, everybody loves the story of some genius hacker able to figure out the stock market and made a small fortune on a stunt they could never repeat, but this has gotten completely out of hand. It's gotta stop. We need to start acting in the user's best interests as if they knew as much about the business as we do. That's the only ethical way forward from here.

[mortb]

Word. I very much miss a serious ethical discussion in the tech crowd that I see myself as part of, being a developer. I think we should admit that we are part of a technocracy. If you know the tech you may pull any stunt off, even when you're a big company. The people that need question our actions are not likely to understand the problem.

To cut short to my conclusion: We should be more humble about our less tech educated users and act accordingly.

[HeWhoLurksLate]

  Companies keep using the average user's technology ignorance against them.

So, then, do OSS things like vsCode, which are made for developers, go in the "Company plays to the users technological strengths" column"?