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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
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[–] 37 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Just following orders is not the ironclad excuse some of you seem to think it is.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Look dude, I hate advertising as much as anyone. I don't want any TV and most streaming services have wedged in some form of advertising nowadays and I avoid all that.

    But equating engineers trying to solve a problem like engineers figuring out how to block ads isn't really equivalent to murder.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    People only get held accountable for their actions and choices when the consequences are equivalent to murder? Their bosses hold some of the blame, sure, but they are not blameless and pretending they are just enables shit like this to keep happening.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    They're still bad people, but this kind of blame has to run uphill. The devs only have the option of quitting, not necessarily of not doing what they're told.

    That being said, I bet there are some Very Good Boys who enthusiastically and proactively suggest some evil shit to the execs.

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