• @Agent641@lemmy.world
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    337 minutes ago
    1. Get a job working for Google making anti-adblockers.

    2. Use your 20% time contributing to FOSS stealth adblocker and anti-anti-adblockers.

    3. ???

    4. Profit for life

  • @Thoven@lemdro.id
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    126 hours ago

    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.

    • comfy
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      354 minutes ago

      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.

    • Annoyed_🦀 A
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      75 hours ago

      But, who’s their competitor? They have none. All the other alternative have very specific community (artsy short film, science, etc)

  • @Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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    639 hours ago

    I would accept “I work for the team that tries to detect ad blockers on YouTube, and slow down the process with bureaucracy.”

    • Eager Eagle
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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

      laudable professionals

  • davel [he/him]
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    -128 hours ago

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