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Oh look, YouTube managed to circumvent uBlock for like two hours again before someone figured out a fix, lol.
Seriously, I wanna know how much funds Google allocates to fight ad blockers just to come up with a working solution every odd month that then gets fixed by the uBlock community in hours. There’s no way this is profitable for them or gets a sizable number of uBlock users to buy their subscription.
I've seen what effort goes into it at somewhere else, it's a lot
not sure I'd say it's unprofitable though, given just how goddamn much money google does make from its advertising monopoly. but I get what you meant with the conversion angle nonetheless
To me the most baffling part is the devs. Like, someone has to be working on this? An honest-to-god software engineer is spending their life fighting windmills to harras more people with ads. This cannot be fulfilling work in any way, can it? Great, I'm putting a lot of work into circumventing uBlock and
To be fine with that you have to be either a sociopath, or somehow completely compertmantilise the task and actively not think about the externalities... or be held at gunpoint. I mean, you're a fucking software developer, there are other jobs than Google! You could be doing literally anything else right now, up to and including herding goats, why the fuck would you willingly fight on the front of the Ad War on the side of the ads.
If I was working on YouTube and my boss told me that I had to figure out a way to thwart uBlock I'd just tell him no. If the choice was between doing that and quitting, I'd quit the same fucking day and get a job doing something real. I quite literally cannot imagine why you wouldn't do that, you got a job at GOOGLE, if you succeeded in their stupid recruitment process then you can find a job LITERALLY ANYWHERE ELSE the same fucking week you quit.
Sadly, the majority of humanity aren't intelligent people. This is most likely working for them with hundreds of idiots.
no to this, kthx
I mean, yeah, the people on Lemmy aren't atypical of the populous though.
a swing with a double miss
I feel like you guys think I'm in favor of YouTube's actions and not just stating observations, but enjoy your angies.
let me spell it out for you: don't be such an ass.
So angy. 😘
Yes, grouping people into categories based on some intelligence stat is frowned upon here in awful.systems the place which doesnt like race realists (or your regional equivalent).
I don't know what that was. I'm extremely left leaning, but even I feel like I just got hit with a nonsensical smattering of woke lingo.
I am too tired to put up with people complaining about "angies" and "woke lingo" while trying to excuse their eugenicist drivel with claims of being "extremely left leaning". Please enjoy your trip to the scenic TechTakes egress.
hahaha what the fuck. do people still fall for this “I’m extremely left-leaning but let me tell you about the wokes” routine?
"I'm extremely left-leaning, but I do have concerns about the (((globalists))) in finance"
what the fuck does it mean to be extremely leaning.
anyway, sorry to say, misanthropy is a reactionary value and also boring and sad.
no, you're not “left leaning”, also, “most people are stupid” is neither original nor true.
oh hey a tankie
Populace ;)