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Get a job working for Google making anti-adblockers.
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Use your 20% time contributing to FOSS stealth adblocker and anti-anti-adblockers.
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???
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Profit for life
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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
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10 seconds? That’s generous.
This is programmer humor.
10…
1…
- Why are you still here?
“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/
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
And it sucks, not a lot of them federate because video storage is expensive
Video hosting costs a lot of money. I wouldn’t expect that to be delivered for free
Youtube servers are terrible. Why not focus on offering a smoother experience? Then charge what you want.