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Developers who work on adtech nonsense, GDPR popups, etc, should take a hard look in the mirror. Yeah, you might make a bit of money, and yeah, maybe your coll

Developers who work on adtech nonsense, GDPR popups, etc, should take a hard look in the mirror. Yeah, you might make a bit of money, and yeah, maybe your colleagues, in your sick system, give you a bit of respect. One day, I think you're going to wake up and realise that you wasted your talents. Like a war veteran who thought what they were doing was right, that the ends justified the means, until suddenly one day it all came crashing down around them. You have the choice, here and now. You're sitting in front of a general purpose computer. You can make fun and interesting tools - you can make stuff to break down barriers - the pathways you can take your craft are unlimited. Choose wisely.

jdjjdflknfjj 7y ago
You realize those GDPR popups are mandated by law? What would you have creators do? You think people like putting those on their web sites? Adtech helps pay creators, it is not entirely a bad thing either.
walterstucco 7y ago
> Adtech helps pay creators, it is not entirely a bad thing either. that's called "working in advertising". it's not creation, it's a job.
neilalexander 7y ago
I understand the cookie choice popups are maybe a legal necessity in some places with GDPR and so on, but the implementation of the entire thing is just awful. Each website having their own badly-coded popovers which are either slow, unusable or just outright deceptive, blocking page scrolling and causing unnecessary page reloads. As for advertising taking over the place, it's just getting insane with them being inserted inline in article content and increasing the page load time significantly, appearing at the beginning of videos or, worse, half-way through them, making pages more resource-intensive and less responsive. The web has never been so widely accessible and yet it has never been more inaccessible.

jdjjdflknfjj 7y ago

You realize those GDPR popups are mandated by law? What would you have creators do? You think people like putting those on their web sites? Adtech helps pay creators, it is not entirely a bad thing either.

walterstucco 7y ago

> Adtech helps pay creators, it is not entirely a bad thing either. that's called "working in advertising". it's not creation, it's a job.

neilalexander 7y ago

I understand the cookie choice popups are maybe a legal necessity in some places with GDPR and so on, but the implementation of the entire thing is just awful. Each website having their own badly-coded popovers which are either slow, unusable or just outright deceptive, blocking page scrolling and causing unnecessary page reloads. As for advertising taking over the place, it's just getting insane with them being inserted inline in article content and increasing the page load time significantly, appearing at the beginning of videos or, worse, half-way through them, making pages more resource-intensive and less responsive. The web has never been so widely accessible and yet it has never been more inaccessible.