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> worse/impossible adblocking Obviously that's not a downside from a software developer perspective.
by vbezhenar 2y ago
> worse/impossible adblocking
Obviously that's not a downside from a software developer perspective.
- robin_reala 2y agoI’m a software developer, and it seems like a positive to me? Why wouldn’t you want the ability to post-facto manipulate with script the interfaces you are presented with?
- ncruces 2y agoAs long as someone else is paying the bills.
- tcfhgj 2y agowhich ads are all about, someone else paying devs to manipulate their users into buying stuff from someone else
- vbezhenar 2y agoBecause if I added ads to my application, I want those ads to be shown to user, so I can have my money.
- robin_reala 2y agoI think this we’ve discovered the inflection point between the traditional hackers and the SV growth hackers that HN tries to court both of.
- Timwi 2y agoWhat you mean is from a capitalist perspective. Not all software developers are focused on exploiting their users.
- vbezhenar 2y agoFor applications developed by communist developers, it matters not if ads could be blocked or not. I also would argue that extensibility adds overhead to support. For example I had issue with one website where user reported that they can't see some function which clearly was there. Turned out that their adblock mistakenly removed that element because of some generic CSS class name. I'd prefer for user to receive my application in the way I planned it, not in the altered way.