Because it’s NEVER about real engineering or service to customers. It’s ALWAYS about the MONEY.
So much for this little gotcha, huh, Balmer? Pro Tip: If you’re going to call out your competitor on privacy, don’t let OUTSIDE ADVERTISING FIRMS choke your PRIVACY FEATURES. Just FYI you browser-percent warriors: IPB is exactly the sort of thing that actually might have made me use IE, ever.
Those ad industry assholes actually think they have a right to know what you do simply because you run a browser, because it makes THEIR job easier. I’m sorry, but if you could afford a marketing degree, you can fucking well do your own research instead of leveraging stock portfolios into a data grant. Which is fine, for a strategy. My problem is that Microsoft BOUGHT INTO IT. Just like good little whores.
I know people who work on IE. I want to know how they feel about their user privacy features being sold out to vested interests. I mean, I know you get some gravy in the form of options, but doesn’t that just make you feel dirty? You put a leash on baby-candy, and your boss made you take it off. Now you are an accessory to baby-candy theft. You do realize this, right? I quit jobs when they make me do unethical things. Just a suggestion.
Somehow Google manages to keep its ad business interests separate from their search engine and browser feature sets. If MS wants to compete on the new internet, they’d better learn the same adaptive strategy.
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