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I was once at a conference where two of the delegates were hiding their badges. When I asked them why, they told me it was because they worked at Halliburton and were ashamed of the fact.

I feel the time is near that folks who work at Google will be doing the same. (The ones with a conscience, at least.)

Another time, Eric Schmidt told me “if we become too evil, we won’t find anyone to work for us”.

Here’s hoping, Eric, here’s hoping…
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues

#Google #EvilAsAService #web

—@aral

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I try to balance the good in the world as a blind person, with the obvious bad. The continued huge wave of people that care about ALT text is just amazing! More and more, if a photo doesn’t have a description, someone in the replies will add it. And again, if this mindfulness of accessibility happens nearly automatically here, on Mastodon, then I think the future is bright for all digital #accessibility. A button label here, audio description there, and asking #disabled people for their input and advice everywhere! And I think it’ll always be the indie developers, website builders, and game creators that go first. Skullgirls? Yeah, I can play that. The whole audiogame scene is full of indie devs. And now, because of that and the general accessibility movement, we’ve got The Last of Us that we can play. Yes, for operating systems, it has been the other way around, but we just have to push harder. I think that, once Windows 10 goes End of Life, there will be a good many blind people that will be looking for another OS. 🙂

—@devinprater

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“Ad blockers are unethical—that’s how they pay to keep the lights on!”

Exactly. It’s how THEY pay to keep the lights on. It’s not how I pay for anything. I didn’t agree to see ads, although I’m ok with some ads; what I definitely didn’t do is agree to be tracked and profiled and have arbitrary third-party code running on my computer just so I could read this awful, pointless, SEO-ified shitfest of an article that doesn’t come close to answering the question I was googling.

#enshittification

—@maxleibman