Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.

• Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One thing is illegal, the other is not. Try a different analogy.

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  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Everything the Nazis did in the Third Reich was legal. People who resisted them were breaking the law. Maybe we should evaluate things by their impact (pollution/invasion of privacy) rather than their legality.

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    • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fine. People, stop buying stuff on Amazon, then.

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      • ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I like how you say that as if its impossible.

        I stopped buying things off of Amazon many years ago because they don’t respect privacy and are unethical.

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  • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If your morals and ethics hinge on legality, then I’ve got some bad news for you…

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    • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not the one making absurd comparison.

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      • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You said, “One thing is illegal, the other is not,” which is directly equating legality with ethics/morality.

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