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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 Apr 23, 2026 +526
Except executives and higher ups are excluded because.
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crakemonk Apr 23, 2026 +102
Corporate overlords aren’t worried about what they’re doing on work computers, just the peons.
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amateur_mistake Apr 23, 2026 +29
It *would* be interesting to see how many words they type per minute with just their pointer fingers...
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leohat Apr 23, 2026 +20
….child p*** is illegal
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Imnotradiohead Apr 23, 2026 +3
Because they are idiots and it wouldn’t help make AI any smarter.
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vanishing_point Apr 23, 2026 +1010
meta is tracking employee keystrokes on google, linkedin, wikepedia as a continuing program of tracking employees. full stop.
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Ludwigofthepotatoppl Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +112
Shit, I don't even do work on my work computer.
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theflyingratgirl Apr 23, 2026 +30
The real life pro tips are always in the comments.
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BookAny6233 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +12
The guys earning $2 a year must be *pissed.*
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Lord_Aldrich Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +8
Gotta be more than that, right? To cancel out my earnings potential forever?
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the_electric_bicycle Apr 23, 2026 +6
AI is inevitable. Make the money now while they can.
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Lord_Aldrich Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +35
But the leopards will never eat MY face!
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FreshestCremeFraiche Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +10
Comp packages for mid/senior level SWE are usually 275-500k yearly total. It’s worth.
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BoomKidneyShot Apr 23, 2026 +1
But that's surely only a fraction of Metas total employees, isn't it? Whats their median salary?
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[deleted] Apr 23, 2026 +8
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void-crus Apr 23, 2026 +2
This guy metas.
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leohat Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +1
Highly likely they didn't know and thought its was some sort of productivity software.
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Krumm34 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +1
google the mark zuckerberg wants to watch you poop copy pasta it's prophetic
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mjd5139 Apr 23, 2026 +91
Their AI will be great at searching for jobs.
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Dull-Sugar8579 Apr 23, 2026 +2
They know they'll need the best too eventually.
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flirtmcdudes Apr 23, 2026 +138
Companies who need to track every keystroke of employees are poorly run with ass management.
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[deleted] Apr 23, 2026 +4
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flirtmcdudes Apr 23, 2026 +9
I’d work at Wendy’s before a job like that
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Consistent-Throat130 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +2
Have you even read the article?
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Reylun Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +52
He’ll just harvest a new one.
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thiefofalways1313 Apr 23, 2026 +7
This gave me a chuckle. Thank you.
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stuck_in_the_desert Apr 23, 2026 +19
Got a whole big-ass book of faces and that’s the one he goes with
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appleparkfive Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +5
Was that where the bbq sauce thing came from?
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blofly Apr 23, 2026 +3
Human bbq sauce. That humans eat.
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FaceMcShootie Apr 23, 2026 +1
Your sentence gave me a stroke
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Reylun Apr 23, 2026 +2
You're welcome
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mistertickertape Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +4
yep. its because he is only talking about personal gains for himself and his company
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dachloe Apr 23, 2026 +21
I hope some employees are doing crazy loop-the-loops with the cursor just throw off the algorithms.
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PornstarVirgin Apr 23, 2026 +14
I hit a 720 today before holding down space bar for 4 hours
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IAmRules Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +8
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
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peepdabidness Apr 23, 2026 +9
Would be nice if people just came together and stopped using their stuff tbh
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MeatImmediate6549 Apr 23, 2026 +7
"Somehow all of our AIs now call themselves Snark Suckerberg and only want to talk about VR."
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McortezLSU Apr 23, 2026 +8
that could open the door for the funniest injection attack ever.
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SonOfMcGee Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +2
Bro, in Silicon Valley they make $300k plus per year.
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starethruyou Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +3
How do you not immediately start planning your exit at this point
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majestic_waterbear Apr 23, 2026 +3
“What does “getting zucked” mean?”
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MentalDisintegrat1on Apr 23, 2026 +3
I'm surprised they haven't already been doing this.
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Anthraxious Apr 23, 2026 +3
And now laying off 10% cause those keystrokes worked I guess. Everything is AI now.
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CR0Wmurder Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 24, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +2
w-h-y-i-s-m-a-r-k-s-o-w-e-i-r-d-?
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deleteduu Apr 23, 2026 +2
Who is meta not tracking? Mighty be infants
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evhan55 Apr 23, 2026 +3
Not so fast
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NPVT Apr 23, 2026 +2
Could I get $1 per keystroke?
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CrankyVince2 Apr 23, 2026 +2
Maybe they should all own part of the profits from they're labor, or this that sochalism?
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loonyfly Apr 23, 2026 +2
I would only start typing with my middle fingers
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stewsters Apr 23, 2026 +2
Never trust your work computer. Your employer will absolutely spy on anything you do there.
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thedrivingfrog Apr 23, 2026 +3
It's not spying is their property it's "monitoring " 
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PissyBuBuCakes Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +2
Why would anyone work there? Money? End of list?
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maximumchuck Apr 23, 2026 +5
They throw enough money at you to make you not care about stuff like this. 
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appleparkfive Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +1
Amazon absolutely does not pay more than Google.
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IMOBY_Edmonton Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +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_ Apr 23, 2026 +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 Apr 24, 2026 +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 Apr 23, 2026 +1
Is there any co or system that ISNT tracking keystrokes yet? 
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love2go Apr 23, 2026 +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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