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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

And there's an embedded truth to this: telling *just* engineers that things are broken doesn't work. So I sat with executives. Showed them what was going on. Worked quietly to consult across the industry on large sites and apps to raise consciousness. All the stuff Ryan (and others) claim "someone" should do in lieu of telling developers to stop making bad choices.

I worked to develop metrics, and even proposed browser-level interventions to depersonalise attribution:

https://github.com/slightlyoff/never_slow_mode