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by matthewdgreen 1519 days ago
>Surely I can't be the only one who finds it incredibly frustrating to see how many people think being republican associated is noteworthy when in the context of scary privacy violations.

I think the point of the conversation is that this is a bad privacy product that is being heavily marketed towards (technically) unsophisticated people who subscribe to a specific brand of politics. Those two facts aren't unrelated. In other words: conservatives are the intended victim here, not the butt of anyone's joke.

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> marketed towards (technically) unsophisticated people

it's being marketed towards gullible people, period.

as a conservative programmer, I saw the ad and laughed.

it was called out by people in conservative online communities as well.

Yeah there are lots of bitter people in these comments making sweeping generalizations.