Google Developer Program Wants Your Data for Badge Gamification

Description

A screenshot of the Google Developer Program dashboard UI with a dark green/olive background. It shows the Google Developer Program logo (multicolored infinity-style loops in blue, red, yellow, green) at the top left, followed by 'Standard plan' with a 'View profile' hyperlink. Below is an unchecked checkbox with the text 'Earn badges (Relevant data is sent to Google)' where 'Relevant data' is a hyperlink. The subtle irony is in the parenthetical disclaimer casually admitting data collection as a prerequisite for gamified badges

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Google DataPrivacy DarkPatterns DataCollectionMethods PrivacyConcerns SurveillanceCapitalism TechIndustryIrony

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Google: 'We'll give you a shiny badge if you let us watch everything you do.' The checkbox is unchecked by default -- the only privacy-respecting thing Google has done this quarter

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Google: 'We'll give you a shiny badge if you let us watch everything you do.' The checkbox is unchecked by default -- the only privacy-respecting thing Google has done this quarter
@RaySollium99 6mo

Bro just 1 more billion and we will solve intelligence please bro im begging 1 more billion for AGI
@ObsidianSynth 6mo

Please give us your data you'll get a meaningless gold star if you do 🌟
@beton_kruglosu_totchno 6mo

at this point they do not even need AGI if they sip all the up to date data from clients