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ekZepp @lemmy.world

4mo ago

9, 8, 7, 6, 5...

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I would accept "I work for the team that tries to detect ad blockers on YouTube, and slow down the process with bureaucracy."
- colleague of the marketing guy that just makes up metrics to pretend to his boss and stakeholders that their work on ads makes any difference
  laudable professionals
  
  Boys, we did it. We made a right with two wrongs!
- just say I help improve ad blockers on YouTube and refuse to elaborate.

Get a job working for Google making anti-adblockers.
Use your 20% time contributing to FOSS stealth adblocker and anti-anti-adblockers.
???
Profit for life
- This was actually my life a few years ago.
  I was hardening our applications to stop scraping and automation bots.
  Then contributing to open-source to have better scraping and automation.
  I wasn't purposely creating loop holes or anything because that's highly illegal. It's about making sure both sides "play nice", because the automation bots are frequently used by spammers/evildoers.
- Damn what movie is this from?

10 seconds? That's generous.
- He'd skip after 3
  
  Ya filthy animal!
- This is programmer humor.
  10...
  1...
  Why are you still here?
  
  Lol
  
  "You literally said 'ten' and then 'one', why do you think I'm still here?"

Cards on the table: for Google money I'd do it too. If they want to enshittify their product until the competition has a fighting chance, who am I to stop them? Sure, it's an annoying and anticonsumer thing to do. But making a "free" product's bad qualities harder to circumvent isn't the ethical hill I'm going to die on.
- But, who's their competitor? They have none. All the other alternative have very specific community (artsy short film, science, etc)
  
  Peertube exists
- For Google money I'd do it too...but I wouldn't do a very good job of it
  
  Yeah, I don't really get the argument here. As much as it sucks, it's not nearly as morally reprehensible as something like weapons. If you don't do it someone else will. It's not something a handful of devs are gonna make a difference in by boycotting and it isn't worth being fired over or not accepting a job over.
- I would take the job just to make sure we can sabotage it. And I'm not even affected by their adblocker detection; I just yt-dlp and NewPipe the videos.

- LMAO where is this picture from
  
  Disney World.

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Video hosting costs a lot of money. I wouldn't expect that to be delivered for free
- Well then make Premium a reasonable price.
  And just don't provide stuff for free. Nobody forces alphabet to provide youtube without account and for free.
  It was a money sink since Google created it
  
  Bough it
  
  They don't provide stuff for free, they provide stuff in exchange for your data and to sell ads.
- They had a good thing going. YouTube was far from unprofitable. But the skyrocketing density and plummeting quality of ads drove people to adblockers.
  I suspect though, the day will soon come when ad-space is no longer quite so valuable.
  
  It was fine until "the adpocalypse", when advertisers pulled their ads because they were being shown with offensive videos.
  While YouTube has been trying to fix the problem the quality of the ads has reduced. So many advertisers now only go through sponsorship, which doesn't give any share to YouTube.
- Youtube servers are terrible. Why not focus on offering a smoother experience? Then charge what you want.
  
  What's terrible about them? I have no issues here in west Europe

More like 1, 2, 10! 💥💥💥 (like in Home Alone)

Feeld mild today are we? I would give him five, but only if I could resist throwing him out myself.

This is the ideal tech worker. You may not like it, but this is what peak technology looks like.

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