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Since the end of last month, all the tech critics and returnees on Twitter have been impatient with impatience.
The
Netflix documentary
, "
Behind Our Smoke Screens
" ("
The Social Dilemma
"), aired from Wednesday, September 9, promised damning revelations.
He was going to give voice to engineers from Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube whose products were at the origin of so much abuse, from manipulated elections to data leaks.
The verdict?
This documentary is both informative and embarrassing.
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Informative
, because it aptly describes how companies in Silicon Valley designed their sites and apps not for everyone's benefit, which they claimed, but for their own benefit.
On the internet, all of our actions are watched, with the aim of selling advertising.
Thus, Instagram keeps the accounts of each of the photos that you look at.
It sends you targeted notifications in order to keep you coming back for more in the application.
This hidden side of the machine is not glorious.
Silicon Valley, which used to sell computers and software, now trades in our data.
This part of the story is successful and didactic.
Tristan Harris, former Google designer, leading figure in the protest.
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In a very catastrophic, even apocalyptic, turn, several engineers estimate
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