The Perks Are Great. Just Don’t Ask Us What We Do. — Backchannel
Oh my god, this story about a Philly tech startup where engineers slowly discover they are making malicious ad tech and have to justify it to themselves to sleep at night is perhaps the most true thing about the internet I’ve read in months.
“The technical challenges, the perks and the camaraderie of the office outweighed the moral dilemma. ‘I think what they did is pretty despicable but at the end of the day, I didn’t give a fuck,’ one former employee said. ‘I was engrossed by the technical problems that this afforded me.'”
This is it, your must-read #longreads about how the internet gets turned into a shitty place.
50onRed is a fixture in Philly’s tech scene. But there’s something the leadership didn’t talk about, even with some of its own staff.
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