onepict, 4 months ago

@aral ah so that's what the joining fee of €7800 is for, to fund positions https://chaos.social/@dentangle/111743270848546535

Snowshadow, 4 months ago

@aral
I wasn't aware they were working with Meta (UGH)
I knew I was following you for a good reason. Thanks for the info.

aral, 4 months ago

@Snowshadow Oh, keep reading the list of members, it gets better ;)

Revertron, 4 months ago

@aral BTW, maybe this is a chance to get into position to be able to stop them? 🤔

aral, 4 months ago

@Revertron By working for an organisation that’s funded by them and exists to serve their needs? Odd approach.

Revertron, 4 months ago

@aral I know, that it sounds silly, but what can we do? :(
The best way is to take the job and try hard to ban those new "Privacy sandboxes" and such. Or am I being childish?

onepict, 4 months ago

@Revertron @aral I don't think it's possible to change those orgs from the inside.

Others have tried with places like Google and Facebook. The organisational cultures are ingrained into the foundations.

Companies pay thousands of dollars to W3C to help formulate policy and web standards. Look at who pays in and formulates these standards.

Yes there are community working groups. But very often those web standards are created to serve those big orgs needs.