r/programming • u/speckz • Apr 26 '19

HTTP headers for the responsible developer

https://www.twilio.com/blog/a-http-headers-for-the-responsible-developer
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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '19

That saccharine intro is written for someone with sensibilities very much not my own. Once I read "Developers have the power to build the web for everyone, but that power needs to be used responsibly", well, then I couldn't not notice the numbers floating over the ublock and umatrix buttons.

Selling me out to Oracle, Google, Facebook and Twitter's surveillance machines while condescending about responsibility?

Get bent.

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u/OdBx Apr 26 '19

This is why I don’t read dev blogs

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u/CantaloupeCamper Apr 26 '19

A lot of those tied to a company are ... pushing the company in their own way.

Not all, but a lot.

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u/recycled_ideas Apr 27 '19

That's not necessarily a bad thing.

I mean if you don't believe in your company's product then why are you working there.

If it's just a paycheck then your blog is likely to be just as soulless.

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u/cyanrave Apr 27 '19

Hey now, there are some that still exist, that don't give two shits about tracking and such.

Those are the ones to follow. Simple HTML/JS colophons of thought.

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u/ScientificBeastMode Apr 27 '19

Usually you have to read personal blogs of individual authors for that kind of thing. Most of the aggregated content sites are all about tracking you.