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For every engineer creating new and novel ways to serve ads, there are 100 engineers who hate ads and will use their power to block them.
by poopsmithe 2y ago
For every engineer creating new and novel ways to serve ads, there are 100 engineers who hate ads and will use their power to block them.
- godelski 2y agoNot only this, but the more successful you become at serving ads the more engineers you create that will passionately work against you. There's an old saying: How do you create a terrorist? You kill his brother. I think there's something to learn from that here.
- xnx 2y agoFor every [highly paid and incentivized] engineer creating new and novel ways to serve ads, there are 100 [part-time volunteer loosely-organized] engineers who hate ads I wish the ad/adblocking balance were as lopsided as you describe, but there are a lot of things working in ads favor (encryption, locked hardware, force of law, etc.)