I would accept "I work for the team that tries to detect ad blockers on YouTube, and slow down the process with bureaucracy."
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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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
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10 seconds? That's generous.
He'd skip after 3
Ya filthy animal!
This is programmer humor.
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- Why are you still here?
Lol
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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
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.