10 seconds? That’s generous.
He’d skip after 3
Ya filthy animal!
This is the ideal tech worker. You may not like it, but this is what peak technology looks like.
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.
But, who’s their competitor? They have none. All the other alternative have very specific community (artsy short film, science, etc)
For Google money I’d do it too…but I wouldn’t do a very good job of it
I would accept “I work for the team that tries to detect ad blockers on YouTube, and slow down the process with bureaucracy.”
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
