He either said “two” (10) “one” (1) “zero” (0) “why are you still here” (because the guy is unfazed)
or he said “ten” (10) “one” (1) “zero” (0) “why are you still here” (because the guy is confused)
Why would you convert to decimal naming conventions when using a binary numbering system? Or do you think numeric values like 42(dec) have inherent names? That’s as silly as thinking that the freezing point of water is 0 degrees or, even worse, 32 degrees.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Advertising is absolutely morally reprehensible. It is propaganda that exists only to manipulate people into buying shit they didn’t want or need. And it turns out that mindless consumerism is destroying society and our planet.
Last time i watched youtube unprotected it had a higher fcking ad frequency than television. And they were put in the stupidest places imaginable, making the video unwatchable. And i’m fucking genx, so i grew up way before the concept of avoiding ads.
There’s funding your product then there’s just being a piece of shit
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.
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10 seconds? That’s generous.
He’d skip after 3
Ya filthy animal!
This is programmer humor.
10…
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Lol
“You literally said ‘ten’ and then ‘one’, why do you think I’m still here?”
“There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.”
https://www.exploringbinary.com/there-are-10-types-of-people/
He either said “two” (10) “one” (1) “zero” (0) “why are you still here” (because the guy is unfazed)
or he said “ten” (10) “one” (1) “zero” (0) “why are you still here” (because the guy is confused)
I’m guessing the second one occured
Why would you convert to decimal naming conventions when using a binary numbering system? Or do you think numeric values like 42(dec) have inherent names? That’s as silly as thinking that the freezing point of water is 0 degrees or, even worse, 32 degrees.
I’m trying to show that the joke only works as a written premise, and falls apart immediately as a spoken premise as was presented initially.
Looks like we have an outsider here *cocks gun
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
Damn what movie is this from?
Lord of War: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/
Thanks!
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.
LMAO where is this picture from
Disney World.
More like
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.
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.
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-dlpand NewPipe the videos.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.
Advertising is absolutely morally reprehensible. It is propaganda that exists only to manipulate people into buying shit they didn’t want or need. And it turns out that mindless consumerism is destroying society and our planet.
I never said it wasn’t morally reprehensible. Only that it’s less morally reprehensible than something like making weapons.
You can’t make better people and better cattle at the same time.
Imagine you were a billionaire. Which do you want?
Last time i watched youtube unprotected it had a higher fcking ad frequency than television. And they were put in the stupidest places imaginable, making the video unwatchable. And i’m fucking genx, so i grew up way before the concept of avoiding ads.
There’s funding your product then there’s just being a piece of shit
But, who’s their competitor? They have none. All the other alternative have very specific community (artsy short film, science, etc)
Peertube exists
And it sucks, not a lot of them federate because video storage is expensive
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.
More like 1, 2, 10! 💥💥💥 (like in Home Alone)
Video hosting costs a lot of money. I wouldn’t expect that to be delivered for free
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.
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
Twish it!
Pull it!
(Yeah I know this joke is a stretch lmao)
Stretch it!
They don’t provide stuff for free, they provide stuff in exchange for your data and to sell ads.
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