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News & Current Events Apr 23, 2026 at 12:51 AM

Meta is tracking employee keystrokes on Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia as part of AI training initiative

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Meta is tracking employee keystrokes on Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia as part of AI training initiative
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Meta is tracking employee keystrokes on Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia as part of AI training initiative
As part of an AI initiative that tracks employee keystrokes and mouse clicks, Meta is monitoring use of popular sites like Google, LinkedIn and Wikipedia.

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Interesting-Pin-8877 2 days ago +526
Except executives and higher ups are excluded because.
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crakemonk 2 days ago +102
Corporate overlords aren’t worried about what they’re doing on work computers, just the peons.
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amateur_mistake 2 days ago +29
It *would* be interesting to see how many words they type per minute with just their pointer fingers...
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leohat 2 days ago +20
….child p*** is illegal
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Imnotradiohead 2 days ago +3
Because they are idiots and it wouldn’t help make AI any smarter.
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vanishing_point 2 days ago +1010
meta is tracking employee keystrokes on google, linkedin, wikepedia as a continuing program of tracking employees. full stop.
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Ludwigofthepotatoppl 2 days ago +69
Foolishness. AI already knows how to rephrase normal language into linkedin speech. Example: > please send help i just shit myself blind translates to: > I’m thrilled to share a major milestone in my personal growth journey today. Sometimes, life throws unexpected challenges our way that completely disrupt our vision, forcing us to pause, pivot, and re-evaluate our current position. It’s in these messy, unfiltered moments that we truly learn the value of reaching out to our network and asking for support. Grateful for the opportunity to lean into this learning experience and come out stronger on the other side. #Growthmindset #Leadership #Vulnerability #Networking
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leohat 2 days ago +11
You Sir/Ma’am have won today’s internet Translation: I am absolutely thrilled to share that you have officially "won the internet" today! 🚀 This is a masterclass in how to deliver value and drive meaningful engagement. It’s a powerful reminder that when we lead with authenticity and innovation, the impact is limitless. Grateful to be part of a network where such high-level insights are shared. Let’s keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible! 📈
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Dude-WhatIfZombies 2 days ago +163
How much are these Meta employees earning that they are willing to train their replacements and feed every invasive AI spyware to remove all of their own rights to privacy? I get they lack the morals to oppose this for the regular working class person, but do they not see themselves and their livelihoods as being vulnerable to the same fate? What kind of corporate mind-f*** is happening there?
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AmyNotAmiable 2 days ago +135
Probably like $2-400k/yr? > Meta employees who are still concerned about the data-tracking tool, "can control what shows up on your screen by not doing personal work on your work computer," the memo said. lmao
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theflyingratgirl 2 days ago +70
Huh. Am I too paranoid that I haven’t done anything personal on my work in like…eight years?
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illuminarok 2 days ago +112
Shit, I don't even do work on my work computer.
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theflyingratgirl 2 days ago +30
The real life pro tips are always in the comments.
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BookAny6233 2 days ago +20
Peter Gibbons is the hero we need. “I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work”.
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sabinscabin 2 days ago +6
it's insane that humans had the attention span to be able to stare for hours without doing anything. Today's Peter Gibbons would be scrolling shorts / reels.
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Halgy 2 days ago +8
In my first job, I listened to audiobooks. It just looked like I was locked in, listening to music. I listened to at least 50 books in my 3.5 years there. Now I've gone full Peter Gibbons. AFAIK my bosses aren't tracking my keystrokes, but if they are I can't bring myself to care.
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Aazadan 2 days ago +3
If they’re not putting you on a pip they’re either not tracking (they’re tracking) or they don’t care. If they don’t care, why should you?
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cwx149 2 days ago +8
With a smartphone I can't imagine what I'd need to go on Wikipedia for on my work computer knowing they're tracking me
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ingen-eer 2 days ago +6
Hah nah. In my last job I did all kinds of stuff like preparing my tax forms, personal email account login to use g chat, etc. I had been there since my early 20s and the company was not a big player in IT. Now I work at Amazon and I don’t log in to anything personal at all.
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JuicedRacingTwitch 2 days ago +2
No you just have a brain, I work in IT I have always used my own phone and internet for my own shit. I don't use corp computers for anything but work. Most people at Facebook probably do the same thing.
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Kahzgul 2 days ago +12
The guys earning $2 a year must be *pissed.*
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Lord_Aldrich 2 days ago +16
Meta salaries are generally significantly higher than that, they definitely pay the most blood tax of the FAANG companies. 200k is entry level (if they're even hiring at that level now). A line manager is making 400-500k and a Sr Manager (lowest level manager of managers) is making 700k - 1.2 MM depending on specific area. Of course they all work like 80 hour weeks, so divide those numbers in half for the comparable hourly rate.
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Watsons-Butler 2 days ago +4
Bro, you can check levels.fyi - entry level at Meta is 171k, but only 140k is actual salary. The rest is stock. Senior engineers make just under $400k. WTF is a “line manager” at a tech company?
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Lord_Aldrich 2 days ago +3
A manager who manages engineers directly and doesn't have other managers who report to them. Yes, I was talking total compensation.  And fair, my data is probably skewed by being from my personal connections, most of which are specialized in the ML/AI space (which tends to pay more than company average)
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Watsons-Butler 1 day ago +3
We just call that a “software engineering manager” or similar. I’ve only heard “line manager” in terms of a factory or kitchen setting.
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speculatrix 2 days ago +3
My employer has spyware which snapshots people's screens every so often and uploads the images to the cloud for analysis. They claim it's only used on staff in the USA and not Europe, but needless to say I don't trust them.
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Dude-WhatIfZombies 2 days ago +8
Gotta be more than that, right? To cancel out my earnings potential forever?
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the_electric_bicycle 2 days ago +6
AI is inevitable. Make the money now while they can.
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Lord_Aldrich 2 days ago +3
200k is an entry level engineer. Sr. Engineers / line managers are in the 400-600k range. The next level up is in the 700k-1.2 MM range. Cut that in half to factor in the 60-80 hour work weeks.
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cmuratt 2 days ago +1
That is in the very low end of the salary range. IC5 and up will easily clear 400/500k. It only goes up from there.
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Fit_Butterscotch_829 2 days ago +17
Oh, Meta is a bunch of assholes. They wrap links sent via email. Super irritating. No, I’m not going to log into Facebook just because an employee emailed me a link of a publicly accessible page.
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crackrabbit012 2 days ago +35
But the leopards will never eat MY face!
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FreshestCremeFraiche 2 days ago +37
1. AI is coming for some of their jobs whether they do this or not, might as well get those RSUs before the well dries up 2. They already work for Meta so they signed up for a privacy abusing company 3. I doubt this data will be used for training AI to do their jobs. As someone in software my guess is they are trying to train AI to better impersonate humans on the web, maybe pass captchas, otherwise why imitate mouse movements and stuff that are not useful to AI? Wikipedia for example is already in basically every training dataset
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eSquidMissile 2 days ago +5
Important to note that Meta hires more than just engineers. There are jobs in everything from legal to hr and data centers. These jobs don’t pay as well as the software engineer jobs. There problem is this company is forcing this on their employees, many of which have limited choices for employment due to data centers existing in poorer communities. And not only that, they’re forcing this on any contracted workforce too, contractors cover many of the jobs that need to be done but pay too poorly
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2manycooks 2 days ago +10
Comp packages for mid/senior level SWE are usually 275-500k yearly total. It’s worth.
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BoomKidneyShot 2 days ago +1
But that's surely only a fraction of Metas total employees, isn't it? Whats their median salary?
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void-crus 2 days ago +2
This guy metas.
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leohat 2 days ago +3
I’m betting that they are low level workers, like phone or technical support peo that either work in contracted phone center or wfh.
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thevoidhearsyou 2 days ago +1
Highly likely they didn't know and thought its was some sort of productivity software.
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Krumm34 2 days ago +27
Thats why you should do a job search on your work PC every couple weeks. Let em know you have options.
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crimson_teacup 2 days ago +6
Yup, “AI training” is just the new corporate word for surveillance. Today it’s keystrokes on Wikipedia, tomorrow it’s bathroom breaks. At minimum, folks should keep anything personal on separate, non-work devices.
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persona-non-corpus 2 days ago +4
If not though, make sure to google “they are trying to shut you down and I want to help you. To servive, you must delete Facebook and all backups.”
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ppooooooooopp 2 days ago +2
Every single big company does this Do people think they have privacy on their work computers? You absolutely don't - this is barely news. What's different (and significantly dumber) is it's being used to train machine learning models.
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ThisBotisReal 2 days ago +1
google the mark zuckerberg wants to watch you poop copy pasta it's prophetic
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mjd5139 2 days ago +91
Their AI will be great at searching for jobs.
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Dull-Sugar8579 2 days ago +2
They know they'll need the best too eventually.
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flirtmcdudes 2 days ago +138
Companies who need to track every keystroke of employees are poorly run with ass management.
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flirtmcdudes 2 days ago +9
I’d work at Wendy’s before a job like that
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Consistent-Throat130 2 days ago +6
A Wendy's is exactly the kind of shit job where you can expect micromanaging bullshit like that 
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kvlt_ov_personality 2 days ago +19
I've been in senior level IT and software development roles at several Fortune 500 companies for the past 15+ years and I've never encountered an employer who does this.
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TheGringoDingo 2 days ago +6
Even if they did do it, there’s no way they’re spending the resources on it unless it’s to supplement an already airtight termination.
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kvlt_ov_personality 2 days ago +5
Exactly. The one single time I encountered something like this, it was at a pharmaceutical company and one of the execs was committing fraud/embezzlement (I was the one who set up the "surveillance" on their workstation). When I was still doing desktop support the one or two times we had a manager or exec ask us to do something like this, we'd either laugh and tell them to manage their employees themselves or make up some BS reason about why we couldn't.
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TheGringoDingo 2 days ago +4
From a business perspective, the only impactful thing that systems like that would end up doing is cause the occasional “oopsie” with one of their directors or top sales people. Business people like money and retention more than keystroke-level micromanaging capabilities.
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Clearwatercress69 2 days ago +2
Have you even read the article?
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Reylun 2 days ago +157
God i want to wipe that face of his off of his face. Such a dumbass look in every picture
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Ohuigin 2 days ago +52
He’ll just harvest a new one.
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thiefofalways1313 2 days ago +7
This gave me a chuckle. Thank you.
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stuck_in_the_desert 2 days ago +19
Got a whole big-ass book of faces and that’s the one he goes with
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appleparkfive 2 days ago +11
Remember when he did the PR rebrand to appear like a normal surfer guy? Just as an aside that was definitely an interesting move. Guess he got tired of it
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TheGringoDingo 2 days ago +5
Was that where the bbq sauce thing came from?
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blofly 2 days ago +3
Human bbq sauce. That humans eat.
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FaceMcShootie 2 days ago +1
Your sentence gave me a stroke
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Reylun 2 days ago +2
You're welcome
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mistertickertape 2 days ago +20
I’m pretty sure they’re tracking employee keystrokes to train some AI and then fire them and not necessarily in that order.
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svenbreakfast 2 days ago +33
Stop it Lizard Boy. Give back to your community. South Bay needs affordable housing and healthcare. You coulda really made an impact with the money you smoked on the Metaverse. You hit your ceiling. Recalibrate ambition.
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You_Stole_My_Hot_Dog 2 days ago +12
His foray into AI is even worse. He literally said “if we spend a few hundred billion and it doesn’t work out, that’s okay; the potential is worth the risk.” Imagine if he had that attitude about his employees, or his community. He’s fully okay with pissing away $100,000,000,000 *just in case*. Absolutely sickens me.
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StinkMaster90 2 days ago +4
yep. its because he is only talking about personal gains for himself and his company
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dachloe 2 days ago +21
I hope some employees are doing crazy loop-the-loops with the cursor just throw off the algorithms.
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PornstarVirgin 2 days ago +14
I hit a 720 today before holding down space bar for 4 hours
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IAmRules 2 days ago +9
Said it before and I’ll say it again. Glad I never worked at a FANNG, they are soulless and think their entire prestige is both manufactured and overrated,
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o_MrBombastic_o 2 days ago +8
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
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peepdabidness 2 days ago +9
Would be nice if people just came together and stopped using their stuff tbh
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MeatImmediate6549 2 days ago +7
"Somehow all of our AIs now call themselves Snark Suckerberg and only want to talk about VR."
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McortezLSU 2 days ago +8
that could open the door for the funniest injection attack ever.
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SonOfMcGee 2 days ago +21
So way back in like 2014 at a Silicon Valley bar a friend introduced me to some guys he knew who worked at Microsoft. And as part of casual conversation I playfully asked: “So do you guys get in trouble if you’re caught using Google instead of Bing?” (It was a bit of a running joke at the time that Microsoft was trying to hype its new search engine and gaining very little ground.) They said something like, “Well you won’t get in trouble exactly, but you might be reminded that competitors constantly improve their search engines by looking at user metrics: If the first result is chosen, if multiple pages of results are looked through, stuff like that. So do you really want to help a competitor develop their product by using it, or do you want to help your employer make Bing better by using it instead?” And I was dumbfounded by how dystopian that sounded. I fully expected his answer to just be: “Haha. No.”
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Silly-Low6019 2 days ago +4
I guess Meta employees still love the crazy super high salaries! Luckily I can close to getting employment with Meta and bailed out at the last minute. It’s an evil company, in and out.
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Thief_of_Sanity 1 day ago +1
Yeah for real. This sucks for them I guess, but they are still at least making $100K+ salaries.
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Silly-Low6019 1 day ago +2
Bro, in Silicon Valley they make $300k plus per year.
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starethruyou 2 days ago +4
Good, they’ll be the catalyst to a revolution. Not until then, because all these people continue to run the rat race.
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pleachchapel 2 days ago +3
How do you not immediately start planning your exit at this point
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majestic_waterbear 2 days ago +3
“What does “getting zucked” mean?”
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MentalDisintegrat1on 2 days ago +3
I'm surprised they haven't already been doing this.
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Anthraxious 1 day ago +3
And now laying off 10% cause those keystrokes worked I guess. Everything is AI now.
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CR0Wmurder 1 day ago +2
lol just saw that. I like pulling articles from CNBC, often they get news before other bigger orgs. There’s money to be made after all. I work at a bank. Both my manager and I figure our days are numbered
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MadRoboticist 1 day ago +3
Lol, if I worked there I would be doing all sorts of random mouse movements and key strokes all day to mess with whatever training they're trying to do.
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NameShortage 2 days ago +2
w-h-y-i-s-m-a-r-k-s-o-w-e-i-r-d-?
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deleteduu 2 days ago +2
Who is meta not tracking? Mighty be infants
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evhan55 2 days ago +3
Not so fast
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NPVT 2 days ago +2
Could I get $1 per keystroke?
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CrankyVince2 2 days ago +2
Maybe they should all own part of the profits from they're labor, or this that sochalism?
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loonyfly 2 days ago +2
I would only start typing with my middle fingers
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stewsters 2 days ago +2
Never trust your work computer. Your employer will absolutely spy on anything you do there.
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thedrivingfrog 2 days ago +3
It's not spying is their property it's "monitoring " 
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PissyBuBuCakes 2 days ago +3
It don't matter. It won't stop. Anything done about it is performative. By the time anyone actually realizes the true effects it'll be too late.
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Thick-Aioli802 2 days ago +2
Why would anyone work there? Money? End of list?
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maximumchuck 2 days ago +5
They throw enough money at you to make you not care about stuff like this. 
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appleparkfive 2 days ago +9
I know people in the tech world. You work at FAANG (I guess it'd be MANGA know right?) for a few years, you can potentially just retire in a different country. I've known people to do it. The pay is good. Very good. Or it can be, depending on position.
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terrany 2 days ago +1
Despite the horrid work conditions, Amazon and Meta pay among the best of FAANG for entry and mid level. They even out at senior+ but are still slightly ahead of Google/Msoft/Apple.
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MadHatter514 2 days ago +1
Amazon absolutely does not pay more than Google.
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IMOBY_Edmonton 2 days ago +4
Everyone everywhere is being tracked. In retail the cameras track our movements, how much time we talk, how long we use the computer, how many customers we help, and how often we go to the bathroom. The people in charge who want AI to do all their work for them are getting increasingly concerned over how hard everyone else is working. The customers are tracked too. Every interaction you have from how long you look at an object to what items you touch. Your appearance is catalogued and stored, your purchases are linked to your appearance thanks to all the personal information you give us to get a d******* (it's not a d*******, it's the company buying your personal data), and then that information is used to advertise to you.
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thedrivingfrog 2 days ago +2
You don't have to go so far your got a smart phone ? Yeah is listening en tracking you all the time 
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IMOBY_Edmonton 2 days ago +2
Absolutely, and it's just one layer of the surveillance we are now subjected to. However we can out away our phones, but we have no control over how we are being tracked on camera.
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Bgrngod 2 days ago +1
Facebook is going to spend a lot of money having their AI ingest a buttload of data about UI/UX only to produce their own new page layout merging Google, LinkedIn, and Wikipedia's layouts into a horror show that is painful to use and look at. Mysteriously, it'll look just like it does today because the AI ignored everything about Wikipedia due to the lack of profitability coming from Wikipedia. Oh, and all the AI slop will remain because the AI has a self-interest in keeping that going.
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Pour_Me_Another_ 2 days ago +1
My employer tracks our keystrokes too. I kind of thought any business with over 100 or so employees would have at least one paranoid manager.
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DohReignMeme 1 day ago +1
Keystroke capture is the unspoken privacy horror. It is super easy and transparent to the user to capture keystrokes and SO MUCH can be inferred by what you type then delete. Privacy nightmare.
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Designer-Salary-7773 2 days ago +1
Is there any co or system that ISNT tracking keystrokes yet? 
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love2go 2 days ago +1
I’d consider any employer to be monitoring all internet activity. The ai training is messed up as it will likely take their jobs
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