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Conversely, I’ve never worked anywhere, in 10+ years, where “we shouldn’t be sending this data to X, it’s bad for our users”, would have got further than the developers. Marketing, Product and management rarely care: in many cases they want the data to go to as many analytics and targeting services as they can.


Since the GDPR came into effect, at least in Germany I notice how product managers and other parties are involved in stuff like this, and not only devs and dev leads.

As an example, 2 weeks ago I had to implement Instabug's SDK for one of our app brands, and created a no-op fake library [0] in order not to shop any Instabug code to the other 5+ apps.

Simply because our PM was afraid of possibly sending stuff to them while not having added them to the privacy policy.

[0]: https://medium.com/@orhanobut/no-op-versions-for-dev-tools-b...




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