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Somewhere an engineer was tasked to write software that does an inventory of my network to see what new shiny hardware of theirs I don’t yet own. Then, the sof
by andremedeiros 6y ago
Somewhere an engineer was tasked to write software that does an inventory of my network to see what new shiny hardware of theirs I don’t yet own.
Then, the software that was written to manage a product that I paid for shoves a call-to-action that takes a considerable amount of the page to suggest I buy it. And I can’t dismiss or close it.
The difference with ads on the web is that I paid for the privilege of being served this garbage. In my mind, this is much worse.
- iamacyborg 6y ago> Somewhere an engineer was tasked to write software that does an inventory of my network to see what new shiny hardware of theirs I don’t yet own. No. Somewhere a marketer queried a database using a simple marketing automation tool to decide which of a variety of banners to show you.
- andremedeiros 6y agoNo. This is hard coded into the management interface.
- iamacyborg 6y agoHow do you know that?